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Mat Salleh
The term "Mat Salleh" is often used by Malay speakers as a colloquial expression to refer to a Caucasian.〔See Wikipedia's list of: ethnic slurs and nicknames given to the British colonials〕 How this expression came about is difficult to completely determine. This is because there exists several versions of its origins passed down by word, with little (or none) official documentation to ascertain this.〔Various blogs with useful discussion threads, discussion forums, popular literature and newspaper reports have been looked into to find (1) a common consensus on the most agreed upon possible origins of the term, and (2) other available possible origins.〕 The different versions are: *The word might have been derived from the expression "mad sailor". The native's first encounters with Westerners were typically drunk sailors. Their intoxicated behavior led to the non-English speaking locals learning the expression “Mad Sailors” from other Sailors. The expression however, was articulated as “Mat Salleh” instead and the term has stuck till now. *Another version is also derived from the expression "Mat Salleh". In this version, shipwrecked and marooned in a foreign land, many sailors panicked and ran away at their first sights of a native inhabitants whom they assumed were “cannibals”. As mentioned above, the expression "Mad Sailors" that the natives learnt to explain their eccentric behavior got mispronounced as "Mat Salleh" due to their unfamiliarity with the English language and its pronunciation protocols. *It could also have been derived from the meaning of the word "Mat Salleh" which means preacher or one who preaches referring to early colonials who came with the secondary agenda of preaching Christianity. ==Notes==
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