![]() ![]() Compounded by their tanned skin, they look every inch like the Malays. ![]() Since they don't speak Mandarin, Hakka or Cantonese, they feel out of place among the "real" or more "genuine" Chinese. They are not Malays and naturally would not be accepted as bumiputras. Through the process of assimilation, they have lost their identity. The only Chinese dialect they speak is Hokkien - though smuttering Hokkien. They speak perfect bahasa Kelate instead of Mandarin, Hakka or Cantonese. ![]() They attended English or Malay schools instead of the chinese schools. The next day, he hangs himself in shame.I always lament the future of a small group of Kelantanese chinese, whose forefathers landed in this country more than 250 years ago - much longer than many current crop of so-called Malaysians. ![]() When the World State media and curious spectators start flocking to the lighthouse, including Lenina, he ends up sparking a massive orgy. Accordingly, he soon moves into a remote lighthouse, where he can be alone and self-sufficient, practicing austerities like whipping himself if he becomes too cheerful or daydreams of Lenina. When he’s arrested, he debates Mustapha Mond at length about the importance of truth versus happiness and stability, arguing that he’d rather be unhappy and free than living under World State slavery. He is attracted to Lenina, but he is repulsed by the promiscuous sexuality she’s been conditioned to practice, and he turns on her when she tries to seduce him, repeatedly hurling the Shakespearean insult “strumpet.” After Linda dies from soma abuse, John stages a brief rebellion in the hospital vestibule. John is eager to see the World State, since his mother describes it as a paradise, but once there, he thinks that World State culture is immoral, infantilizing, and degrading to humanity. He spends the first 20 years of his life on the Reservation, and though the Reservation natives treat him as an outsider, he still picks up their religious and moral values (like the importance of self-denial and a belief in monogamous marriage), and develops a love of Shakespeare, whom he quotes frequently. John is born to a woman from the World State, Linda, who gets stranded in a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. ![]()
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