Tan Sri Pheng Yin Huah, president of Hua Zong which is the Federation of Chinese Associations, said apart from orang asli and Sabah and Sarawak natives, other races were once pendatang. See ‘Stop using “pendatang” to describe Chinese and Indians’ (The Sun Daily, 8 Nov 2015).
Pheng is trotting out the favourite trope among Malaysian Chinese that Malays are pendatang too.
Helen Ang 