Americans React to Malaysia in 1970
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In the 1970s, Malaysia was the biggest rubber and tin producer in the world. Not anymore. Nowadays, Malaysia's biggest exports are electronics, semiconductors and IT products. The US is the biggest importer of Malaysian exports today. The country is still a big exporter of manufactured rubber products like gloves, condoms and tires. Also big on palm oil, petroleum and gas.
Rubber and latex are Malaysia's biggest export and manufacturing sector. Fun fact, Malaysia makes 70-80% of world's surgical gloves (correct me if wrong) and around same percentage of condoms. Even US buys gloves and other latex products from Malaysia. Not to forget, tyres too.
Edit: Top Glove, Hartalega, Kossan, YTY, Riverstone are some of the biggest nitrile glove manufacturers worldwide. All from Malaysia
Yeap. Dunlop used to be the biggest latex Manufacturer here and they produced tyres and mattress worldwide.
How Malaysia get involved in latex industries?
I didnt realise riverstone made in malaysia👍
@@iamgreat1234 The british brought rubber trees to Malaya in the late 1800s. They also then developed it into a cash crop.
I live nearby Hartalega factory.
I was a young teen in 1970, living in Kedah, the northern Malaysian state bordering Thailand. I never even set foot in Kuala Lumpur yet. Later on I went to KL to study at Diploma level, and immediately after graduation flew to the US to do my BS and MS with Malaysian govt scholarship, and now retired and living permanently in KL with my wife, children and a grandchild. How time passes. KL then was a little town with the tallest building being the Parliament building. within city center the Bangkok Bank (12 floors) was tallest building, later taken over by AIA (American International Assurance) building. Small city with swamps and wooded areas around. Where KLCC Towers now stand, it was swamp and tin mining area.
I lived in Malaysia for a total of 5 years between 1972-1979. Beautiful country,beautiful people. Returned in 1998 for a brief holiday and loved it.
At this year british influence for malaysia lifestyle is still strong..
Yes its true, my father is british educated….
The US today imports most of its electronic and IT parts from Malaysia. Thats because Intel, AMD, Snapdragon and many other component factories are based in Penang, the 'Silicon Island of Asia'. If you look at the back of the laptop, desktop or mobilephones even in the US, you will see the word, ' Malay' on the chipsets. Its an indication that it is from Malaysia. Malaysia currently manufactures these chips and semiconductors while China does the final manufacturing for the global market. I have a link about Malaysia's exports to the US, but cant seem to post it here.
Btw the video is titled, ' Top SE Asia Trade To U.S.A. Ranked - The Results Surprise You!' Its from the RUclips channel, 'Kensho Quest'.
In the 1970s, many Malaysian secondary schools have one or two American Peace Corp teachers. When I go to UKM (The National University of Malaysia), which was at its infant stage then, I have some of my maths and physics subjects taught by American Peace Corp lecturers. Interestingly, they tried their best to deliver their lectures in Malay.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. During World War II, Singapore was conquered and occupied by the Japanese Empire from 1942 to 1945. When the war ended, Singapore reverted to British control, with increasing levels of self-government being granted, culminating in Singapore's merger with the Federation of Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963. However, social unrest and disputes between Singapore's ruling People's Action Party and Malaysia's Alliance Party resulted in Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia. Singapore became an independent republic on 9 August 1965.
The history of Brunei concerns the settlements and societies located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, which has been under the influence of Indianized kingdoms and empires for much of its history. Local scholars assume that the Islamization of Brunei started in the fifteenth century, with the formation of the Bruneian Empire, a thalassocracy which covered the northern part of Borneo and the southern Philippines. At the end of the 17th century, Brunei subsequently entered a period of decline brought on by Brunei Civil War, piracy, and European colonial expansion. Later, there was a brief war with Spain, in which Brunei lost Manila and evacuated their capital for a brief period until the Spanish withdrew. The empire lost much of its territory with the arrival of the Western powers, such as the Spanish in the Philippines and the British in Labuan, Sarawak, and North Borneo. The decline of the Bruneian Empire accelerated in the nineteenth century when Brunei gave much of its territory to the White Rajahs of Sarawak, resulting in its current small landmass and separation into two parts. Sultan Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin later appealed to the British to stop further annexation in 1888. In the same year, the British signed a "Treaty of Protection" and made Brunei a British protectorate until 1984 when it gained independence and prospered due to the discovery of oil. Brunei and Indonesia like Arab countries prospered due to the discovery of oil and gas. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Timor Leste need to make efforts, have helped reduce poverty and improve the economic and physical health of the country.
Old video about M'sia can be found on British Pathe channel
for the brunei not joining maysia was a wise choice. they are better economically from the beginning until now...
Hi im from malaysia can anyone give a like?
Yep that's true lumbering are one of the main industry back in 70-80 sabah, my grandfather own tht kind of business back than
you can search the real Tanah Melayu history
The History of the Malay Peninsula (40.000 BCE - 2018 CE)
Both decision of brunei and singapore had their pros and cons...as example global business located in singapore but they had to depend in malaysia to be the manufacturer of their product because singapore didnt have many space to build many of this in the country,so malaysia as manufacturer and transporter and singapore as administrator. at least that is what my lect told in class tho,that singapore and malaysia needed one another
the diference is singapore no identity even how had they try but Brunai can proud of what they have till now.. their identity is steel strong n well knon internasionaly
What're you talking about lol Singapore is a huge manufacturing hub. Lots of factories in Singapore but they all high tech la. But yeah some products are manufactured in Malaysia end exported to Singapore. Singapore no longer depends on Malaysia for water tho. They're fully self sufficient now. Food however, most of Cameron Highlands high quality A+ grade produces end up on the shelves of Singapore grocery stores.
@@natep6729 well thats my lecturer talk by,not disregard singapore tho,it could be wrong😅but seriously you should learn to take opinion...i mean it could be logically because my subject is international logistic and shipping...he show the stat and all in my class because obviously singapore didnt have enough land by their own...because how small is singapore,with the attract of global investor where else did they will want to open a factory? This is when Malaysia come in 😂thats all i said
Why u suddenly mentioning 💧...you stray too far😅
@@natep6729 what a funny comment saying SG is self sufficent as SG still import water in cheap price from Johor n it make more funny is when malaysia want increase the price SG take the issue to PBB. So funny saying SG is self sufficient.
Coz at that time, a lot of countries don't know about Malaysia.
And a lot of people from other countries think that Malaysian live in jungles.
That's why the documentary more like an education video.
I know coz I live in that era 🤓
You are right. They said we lived on the tree 🙄😂😂
really love this kind of video
I'm now 59 years old, although now Malaysia is quite developed but I still prefer life during 7ties,
It's generation nostalgia.. nothing wrong with that.. peoples always love the time when they were young and lively..
It the time when Motorola, RCA, Texas int. ,HP, intel and many more started to invest in M'sia making Malaysia the largest semiconductor exporter ni the world
Those times seems perfect everything follow the follows but now everything seems dead 😒😒😒😒
I didn't exist in the 70s, so I can't judge.
@@aliennot27 imagine MCO and Wuhan flu in 70s...total nightmare ..no RUclips and even phone is expensive..
In the 70's Malaysia was the world's largest exporter of Rubber. When tin was mined in Malaysia, it beat Bolivia to be the world's largest producer and exporter of tin. Coconut and tea plantations also formed a part of the exported commodities. Sarawak alone was the world's largest exporter of Pepper. I am not sure if it still maintains this position. As agriculture was the main sector of the economy, more efficient high value crops were later introduced. Of these Cocoa and Oil Palm were significant. Somehow, the cocoa industry shrunk due to it's high maintenance expenditure. Oil Palm took off very well, providing better profits with high sale prices and little maintenance. Malaysia became the world's largest exporter of Palm oil beating Ivory Coast to become world number one. Today, Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of Palm Oil. As Malaysia focussed on industrialization, electronics exports have become a significant part of foreign revenue besides the tourism industry. Unfortunately, the tourism industry has taken a severe beating from the Covid19 Pandemic. The logging industry too has come under the microscope of western Nations rightfully obsessed with deforestation. Another agricultural commodity that has taken a significant rise is the Durian export industry, with the world renowned "Mustang King", and the new "Sultan" varieties fetching premium prices. The Oil and Gas sector too contributes significantly to our GDP. Our high quality petroleum is exported and cheaper crude is imported and refined locally. The price of Ron95 is RM 2.05 (USD 0.50), Ron97 is RM 2.67 (USD 0.65) and Diesel is RM 2.15 (USD 0.52) per litre respectively. Virtually, over the years, focus has shifted to high revenue yielding industries than being merely raw material suppliers.
Historically Malaysia is agricultural based in the 60s, tin rubber export in the 70s, oil&gas and heavy industries in the 80s, IT based in the 90s, education (private universities) and health based in 2000s, film media animation and the list goes on. There are some foreign universities in Malaysia such as University of Southampton UK etc.
At minute 4:32, that is not Kuala Lumpur, it is Penang. That Building "Chowsrata" is still there, with the same name. Situated along Penang Road.
Hai Guys... very interesting video react... Wow!! Blast from the past..
Malaysia used to be the top latex producer.. not now any more..
Err... We are still the top condom and rubber glove provider in the world.
They are both gloves! 😆🤣
@@TheCommodity 😂😂
Last time it was liquid latex. Until we have our own rubber standard.
@@TheCommodity gloves for different body parts. Both are essential business during lockdown.
I served at Butterworth fighting the communists.
In the 70’s, Malaysia produces top students among the commonwealth countries.
Great to see this video. I am a Malaysian born in 1972
Yes, Vietnam war..the 10,000 days war.
Well it's malaysia in 70s so it's different than now
Now malaysia they put their own English by putting word 'la' most of their sentence
Like if you stuck in traffic
-JAM LA
the classroom looks exactly like my highschool lmao... btw many things have changed drsatically eg lates no longer being that important but we export more gloves, Sarawak has leapfrogged some other states and become one of the richest state governments, Sabah is now one of the poorest
Well, the Sabah State Government was quite rich. I think in terms of state's government income, they're second to Selangor. The poorest state's government is Perlis
Formal schooling system came to Malaysia via islamic missionaries in the 1700s. Way before British colonization. Prior to british most Malays go to madrasah (school) to study quran and jawi writing until age 12. Modern schooling system started in the late 1800s and same goes to vernacular school for chinese and indian migrant workers. I believe most of western people think that we Asian live primitively until 1900s which wasnt true at all. SEA have quite important civilazation dated from 600CE (Sriviwijaya, todays Peninsular Malaysia, West Borneo, Sumatera, West Java, some part of Philippines)
That's true. My great great grandpa used to run public religious school in 1690s.
We should’ve had tech schools.
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Malaysian global shipments during 2020. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Malaysia.
1. Electrical machinery, equipment: US$86.6 billion (37% of total exports)
2. Mineral fuels including oil: $26.5 billion (11.3%)
3. Machinery including computers: $20.2 billion (8.6%)
4. Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes: $13.5 billion (5.8%)
5. Rubber, rubber articles: $11.2 billion (4.8%)
6. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $10.9 billion (4.6%)
7. Plastics, plastic articles: $8.2 billion (3.5%)
8. Iron, steel: $5.2 billion (2.2%)
9. Other chemical goods: $4 billion (1.7%)
10. Aluminum: $3.8 billion (1.6%)
Malaysia’s top 10 exports accounted for over four-fifths (81.2%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Rubber including items made from rubber was the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 58% from 2019 to 2020. In second place for improving export sales was animal or vegetable fats, oils and waxes via a 17.9% gain. Malaysia’s shipments of iron and steel as materials posted the third-fastest gain in value up by 17.8%. (www.worldstopexports.com/malaysias-top-10-exports/)
the. building in 5:00 is a wet market in Georgetown,Penang
The vietnam war for the US (They were fighting the French before the US came in) started in 1965 till 1975. I believe it was the first time the majority of Americans first heard about South East Asia.
We make condoms. Lol latex rubber r malaysia's most if not one of the exports since long time ago. The surgical gloves, boots, etc.
My mom Aren't even born that time
I want to know more about America..
That was from the economic development perspectives. The lifestyle of the younger generation then was very much shaped by the American and Brittish cultures we emulate from the television. We had house parties and dance to the same tunes in the discos as you do. In the college we had long hair and wear ripped jeans. By the time I came to America for further studies, in early 80s, I surprised most American as I know their culture more than they do! London and New York was just like a second home to me just from the knowledge that I got from books and television. This is due to the "hundred monkey effect". Whatever the mass thought form on one part of the world becomes the mass thought forms in the whole world, starting with the most empathic few.
Vietnam war time
I was 19 in in 1970. The world have changed so much in 50 years physically for better or worse. But human beings haven't change much in their war mongering ways
Bro this are all legit , man at this time was the best thing that ever happened to my country ! Haa... those glorious days.😄😊
4:41 That's Chowrasta Market in George Town, Penang.
rubber used to be no. 1... now it's palm oil
Yes, it was...because i am one of the person leaving in Brunei Darussalam
I call this a good media propaganda during those years. Hahahha....No surprise that even in the 2000 when my company employed expats from France, Iran and Germany. I would say almost all of them are surprised when they 1st came to Malaysia...KL particularly. Our French friends really thought we were living near a jungle or in secluded area and really surprised that we have the Petronas Twin Towers (he assumed the Twin Towers located somewhere in Singapore). Our German friends are shocked that we host Formula 1 race in Sepang circuit and we ave our own local brand cars.
some ppl still think we live in Trees
condoms are product from latex too also are made here....
Lol, first thing I thought of. 🤣
Nice! A journey down the memory lane! I would definitely take a ride on a time machine and explore the past 😝!
At 5:00, the clip shows Chowrasta Market which is actually in Georgetown, Penang; not in Kuala Lumpur.
1970s the Malayan Communist Party is still haunting locals especially in the rural area. That time our forces are still fighting the communists off in the jungle and thankfully we drove them up to Thailand. The Royal Malaysian Police paramilitary unit called PPH actually hunt them in Thailand but that authorities did not want to cooperate and asked PPH to go home to Malaysia by walking.
I'm from Brunei and in my personal experience we're doing alright
At that time majority of big plantation companies & lands were fully under Britain. Untill 1981, Malaysian managed to take it back.😎
Yes in my hometown we still have latex farmers. And Latex is raw material still important. But Malaysia is big Palm oil export! Also Malaysia export Crude oil , gas and gasoline.
In the 70's malaysian goverment sent tenth of thousand of student oversea to study . Many were send to uk and usa. I was one of the student send to uk to do my undergraduate.
Brunei not join Malaysia is good choice
On 8 December 1962, Brunei was rocked by an armed uprising, which became known as the “Brunei Revolt”. ... The outbreak of the revolt implied that there was widespread resistance to the Malaysia plan within Brunei, and this may have contributed to the sultan of Brunei's decision in July 1963 not to join Malaysia.
The Brunei revolt (Malay: Pemberontakan Brunei) was a December 1962 insurrection in the British protectorate of Brunei by opponents of its monarchy and its proposed inclusion in the Federation of Malaysia. The insurgents were members of the TNKU (North Kalimantan National Army), a militia supplied by Indonesia and linked to the leftwing Brunei People's Party (BPP), which favoured a North Borneo Federation. The TNKU began co-ordinated attacks on the oil town of Seria (targeting the Royal Dutch Shell oil installations), on police stations, and on government facilities around the protectorate. The revolt began to break down within hours, having failed to achieve key objectives such as the capture of Brunei town and Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III.[1] The revolt influenced the Sultan's 1963 decision not to join Malaysia. It is seen as one of the first stages of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
and there were several disagreements between Tunku Abdul Rahman and the then Bruneian Sultan.
Sources: Google and others sorry if anything is wrong
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei_revolt
www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Brunei-become-part-of-Malaysia?top_ans=253869694
Hmmm maybe yeah idk
Stay safe ❤️🇲🇾🇧🇳🇸🇬
Malaysia :
1. Kelantan - Darul Naim 👑
2. Terengganu - Darul iman 👑
3. Johor - Darul Ta'zim 👑
4. Melaka - Darul Azim dulu👑 ( sekarang bandaraya bersejarah)🟠
5. Negeri sembilan - Darul khusus👑
6. Pahang - Darul makmur👑
7. Selangor - Darul Ehsan👑
8. Perak - Darul Ridzuan👑
9. Kedah - Darul aman👑
10. Pulau pinang - Pulau mutiara🟠
11. Perlis 👑
12. Sabah - Di bawah bayu🟠
13. Sarawak - Dumi kenyalang🟠
14.Wilayah persekutuan/Federal territories of Malaysia:
- Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
(Ibu negara/National Capital)
- Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya
(Pusat pentadbiran/ Administration centre)
- Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan
(Internasional Business and Financial Center IBFC)
👑: have a King/Sultan/yang di-Pertua Besar🤴🏻👸🏻
🟠: Yang di-Pertua Negeri
@@meeeegat perlis - indra kayangan
@@meeeegat boleh je letak (dulu)
@@apieabarth1307 hmmm yeah ha ah
As a Bruneian, YES!! It was a very good choice for Brunei to remain socereign on its own. Brunei was first to not be part of the Malayan Union and then Singapore also opted out.
Yes, not mention Brunei also able to implemented sharia law fully , i am not Bruneian but i am glad to see Brunei as independent
Singapore was kicked out not opted out!
i wish i was a bruneian
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We, Malaysians or even Asians are definitely not trying to be like the Americans or any western countries at all. We are we .. and are proud of our tradition, language, costumes, food yada yada .. and most importantly, how we have progressed so far.
Frankly .. we know about the world more than most average Americans.
If you talk about simple things like .. food for example, well .. we've tasted your burgers and fries wayyy back when we were young compared to some westerners against our traditional food here.
Tech savvy, languages competency, business mindedness etc, the Asians are at par or maybe better today. Education wise .. we learned more about the world and the American 50 states, yr presidents and yr civil wars is just one topic in our History lesson in school. The WWl and WWII .. peanuts.
Oh fun facts here .. l'm a 59 years old granny. Yup .. we, ladies do go to school back then. ✌️
we also learn about our own history, I enjoyed Sejarah
@Commodity..with regards why they created fish farms even though surrounded by the sea :-
1) geography outlay. Its hilly
2) the forest is VERY dense. Its very hard to move around due to lack of roads etc.
I mean how many days one has to travel by foot to get fish etc
Brunei wanted to be a sovereign nation as they had vast quantities of petroleum within their waters & would have had to share their wealth with the newly formed Malaysia. Even now the Sultan of Brunei, their supreme head of state is one of the richest persons on earth, mainly due to petroleum and Brunei citizens don't pay tax!
You say "supreme leader" with so much pride lol. Cute. How's life under shariah law? How are the minorities in your country treated? Sultan is rich but are the people really rich? Reminds me of North Korea lol
In Brunei a basic car is a Mercedes C250 it's like Thier Camry why I say this is because when my uncle went there in early 2000s and he shocked to find every household had Mercs in Thier drive way and while the city doesn't have buildings taller then 30storeys but infrastructure was very good they already have EV texies in operation
@@natep6729 I'm not from Brunei. I'm Malaysian. Just stating a reason for them not wanting to join the Malaysian Federation. In any case, there are no "perfect" nations in this world😐
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Great to learn history ✌️
6:20 that was not a school but maybe a university.. 1970s end of vietnam war and watergate. 😂
From Sabah people point of view like myself, Brunei make a good choice by nit joining Malaysia Federation. Sometime we feel a bit mistreated when it comes to budget given for development. Because Sabah is a huge state.
i was born in 1970
Meet google FI lol
I think the narrator is editing and few films
Hai from malaysia🥰
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good choice for brunei
Hi please react to Manila Queen of the Pacific 1938 video, where you can see the Pre War Manila during American Occupation
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Please react
👉Philippines 1956/1959
When you birth date Miles?
Can u react for Jakarta in the past
Y r u overthinking...??? Y people who near sea cannot breed FISH...???? Super mentality....😀😁😇🤧🤮🤢😭😢🥱
have ever heard of SEASONS?????? also it needs PERFECT conditions to have fish
React to the Philippines during the 30s, or also 60s
Can you react to Philippines too like what did you react
:P
Sabah sarawak made a bad decision join Malaysia
me first
Yes we live near the sea but it’s also depends on the monsoon seasons where about 3 or 4 months we aren’t able to catch the bounty😅, so it is not all year round sunny weather
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