Govt to ban non-Malay models?

Advertisers ordered to drop models with non-Malay faces

The Malaysian modelling and advertising industries are in shock after the government announced it was reviving a ban on the multiracial Asian faces that dominate billboards and magazines.

Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said yesterday that models with so-called “pan-Asian” features were not representative of Malaysian demographics.

“Using pan-Asian faces means downgrading local faces,” he said. “We have to give priority to models with local looks.”

What is a Malaysian face or local looks? What about mixed Malaysian with a Pan asian face? Malays alone don’t represent Malaysia, so stop discriminating others. It is people like this that will try anything to disunite the people, how stupid can one be?

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