Changing our educational system to recognise the Orang Asli and to desist from treating them as if they are subordinates is the first step to co-existing with the indigenous community.

Doing so is also an important precedent, for as we have much to learn from them, and not the other way around.

This was one of the points raised during discussions at a talk yesterday on the commendable morals of the Orang Asli communities.