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Malay race
Concept of a Malay race / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the race concept. For the distinct ethnic group in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, see Malays (ethnic group).
The concept of a Malay race was originally proposed by the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), and classified as a brown race.[1][2] Malay is a loose term used in the late 19th century and early 20th century to describe the Austronesian peoples.[3][4]
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Since Blumenbach, many anthropologists have rejected his theory of five races, citing the enormous complexity of classifying races. The concept of a "Malay race" differs with that of the ethnic Malays centered on Malaya and parts of the Malay Archipelago's islands of Sumatra and Borneo.