malaysian guys.


it sounds stereotypical [okay, im really not that into stereotypes and typecasting and schemas and like scripts and like catergorising or branding people since im pretty much an antistereotype [which might be a stereotype in itself] but you get my point anyway] but it's something i've briefly discussed with my roomie and a couple of hall friends, who all happen to be malaysian females and they all have to somewhat agree with what i had to say.

that they tend to be immature, childish [behaviour wise], have higher-pitched voices, soft-spoken, somewhat more erm, feminine compared to their singaporean counterparts.
it doesnt have to be all but most of them have at least one of the above characteristics.
really! especially for the higher pitched voices and softspoken. i am not joking. but the number of cases i have encountered i believe that my observations are true.

they are gentler, more approachable and more friendly, but they tend to exude this 'nua' aura about them. i don't know why. yeoheee says its perhaps due to the fact that as compared to their male singaporean counterparts they have not experienced the training that changes you from a boy to a man aka, NS, and also a lot of them are pretty young.


okay this is kind of skewed since you can't say all swans are white if you only see white swans because maybe they only have black swans in england and this is some cog psych concept, a term for a kind of flawed reasoning which is basically 'if i only see A = B , then all A = B' but i cant remember the name for it.

okay i got annoyed and actually stood up and took my pl3233 text from the far shelf above to flip open to check, and it says here there are a few related concepts.

The availability heuristic is a phenomenon (which can result in a cognitive bias) in which people base their prediction of the frequency of an event or the proportion within a population based on how easily an example can be brought to mind.
Simply stated, where an anecdote ("I know a Chinese guy who...") is used to "prove" an entire proposition or to support a bias.

yes, honestly speaking when i think of malaysian guys in general, i can only imagine in my mind many many examples of malaysian guys exhibiting behaviour that fits one of the above i mentioned.
it is definitely 'i know a..' but more like 'i know many many who...'
i guess it was more like i encountered more of these guys, and their behaviour and way of talking left an impression on me, such that i unconsciously seeked out examples in future to confirm the stereotype/type i had in my mind, confirming the bias.



well.

do you agree?