A few weeks ago, I came across on my Facebook timelime of a news story that a Malaysian historian claimed that Malaya was colonised because the colonisers were jealous of the power and intelligence of the Malays and that the Chinese migration was a historical conspiracy or an ‘invasion’ of sort (and I suppose the South Indians, too, and maybe the Bangladeshis as well), and that the Malays were already skilled miners, and rubber tappers, too, perhaps.