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Within the 80抯 and early 90抯, both Malay too English programmes were screened on what ended up being known as Channel 5, and Mandarin and Tamil programmes on Channel 8. This was before both the Malay and Tamil programmes were later relocated towards the channel Prime 12 in 1995. These media enclaves were conclusively delineated when a dedicated Malay channel was established in the year 2000, called Suria. Thus, we'd three channels on which became referred to as Television Corporation of Singapore, and then Mediacorp, each one of these catering exclusively to a certain language stream: Channel 5 for English programming, Channel 8 for Mandarin, and Suria Television for Malay. Tamil programming, however, had to share transmission space with Kids Central and Arts Central about the station referred to as Central. This reminder of the insufficient clout of the numerical ethnic minority was somehow alleviated by designating a reputation, Vasantham Central, for the Tamil offerings, thus creating the impression of an autonomous pseudo-channel.
I think mentioning this background is essential because In my opinion that the ghettoisation of these television channels has led, inevitably, to some certain polarisation. Previously,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one could glimpse traces from the Other, access the self-representations of a community, by watching just one channel.
A prime illustration of it was the show Mat Yoyo, later known as Aksi Mat Yoyo, a Malay children抯 programme that was screened within the mid-80抯 and which ran for 12 years. Many non-Malays I have spoken to remember this particular programme, for various reasons. Firstly, it was a programme featuring predominantly child performers, who were nurtured under a children抯 talent workshop known as the Bengkel Kanak-Kanak. They were often instructed about the finer points of singing, dancing, storytelling, and often, modelling sponsors?clothes, like those from 2nd Chance or Cerisi. Secondly, for a lot of of these non-Malay viewers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the show was some type of appetiser,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], before the main span of the English cartoon that was screened in the 6:30 time slot. Thirdly, handful of them could your investment main protagonists of the show, mainly a pair of cats who have been referred to as Yoyo and Yaya.
Yoyo was played by a Malay child actor who was dressed in a cat costume, including a headdress with ears, in addition to shoes and gloves the same shape as paws. He also wore suspenders. Yaya, his female counterpart, wore a skirt rather than pants. Each of them had their faces painted with greasepaint: the noses would be blackened, whiskers etched in, the philtrum from the maxilla would be exaggerated, and many interestingly, black rings would encircle their eyes, which made them look a lot more like raccoons than cats.
There was also a grownup presenter on the show, called Mat Sentul,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who wore a fez. It had been never clear to me the relationship between Mat Sentul and the two cats. I had been not sure whether they were his pets, or whether he treated them like his own children. The idea of this ambiguous relationship is triggered, of course by the perception of humans dressing as cats. I wonder what it really was that I saw in them through my primary school eyes. How does a young child connect with anthropomorphic representations? Did they seem analogous to cartoon characters, the likes of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck? Why do I sometimes wonder why Donald Duck wears a cap, a high but not pants, his little duck tail wagging almost obscenely? What semiotic registers are operating in these instances?
Perhaps one of the most arresting questions that strike me today,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while reminiscing about Mat Yoyo, is: do animals have ethnicities? You will find cats, for example, whose given breed names carry loaded ethnic as well as nationalist connotations: offhand I'm able to suppose the Persian, the Burmese, Balinese,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bengal, the Egyptian Mau. These are all ripe for many very essentialist tropes. However these are merely names that also might describe the cats?habitats and places of origin. The desire for anthropomorphic violence is greater if you have human beings, with very definite ethnic markings (in the language they use, for example),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], putting on animal costumes. I am wondering just how much of this animal hide interacts with the melanised human skin; resulting in a conflation of identities. Maybe I'm able to sum up my space of inquiry having a simple question by a non-Malay friend: what exactly is it with Malays and cats?
Back to Aksi Mat Yoyo. I have mentioned our skin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the animal pelt, but a third layer ought to be recognised as well: the costumes worn by Yaya and Yoyo.
I remember very distinctly the material used for the cats?costumes. For Yoyo, it was a kind of tartan design, which I associated with bolster casings. For Yaya, a kind of kitschy batik in rumpled brown, that we associated with tablecloths in dimly-lit one-room flats. In the two cases, I'd the distinct impression that the material used was poor, probably scavenged from second-hand castaways. Somehow, this filled me with a certain sense of shame. These were working-class rags that somehow betrayed your skin that may have been masked by the costumes. It helped me wonder if these cats would have worn fancier costumes if they weren't played by Malay actors. After which, a slippage: if these weren抰 Malay cats, they might have had more classy attire: what about a Donald Duck sailor suit, or perhaps a Minnie Mouse frock. In attempting to indicate some degree of cultural inflection on the cats, the show抯 producers had inadvertently exposed the demographic stereotype from the Malay in Singapore: rooted within the working-class,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose aspirations towards the prevailing capitalist-oriented economy in many cases are marked on fabric: elaborate and garish designs on ultimately cheap cloth.
But back to the question: what exactly is it with Malays and cats? Why did Aksi Mat Yoyo choose this particular animal, even if they weren't aware of how it could represent a particular community on a predominantly English channel? First of all, we抣l need to examine the animals that are taboo to Malays, the majority of whom are Muslims. These will be the pig and also the dog. Based on Islamic jurisprudence, contact with either animal is haram, or forbidden. Greater leeway is offered to make contact with with dogs; for instance some hadiths claim that your dog can be touched if it is dry, or if its muzzle is avoided, which it can be employed to guard one抯 house. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most Muslims err along the side of caution and avoid dogs entirely. Given the injunctions against contact to these animals, it wouldn't come as a surprise to notice that a couple of the worst insults in the Malay language are 慴abi?and 慳njing? which respectively refer to the pig and also the dog.
Secondly, even while there are lots of animals that appear in Malay folk tales, especially the mouse deer and also the tiger, I suspect that these were regarded as too exotic for that urban viewer. Furthermore, the realm of folk tales appeared to connote a community steeped both in superstition and nostalgia. I believe it was vital the chosen animal was one which was visible within an urban space,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perhaps to counter the invisibility of a community on television spaces. The animal could thus be harnessed as a signifier of presence.
Thirdly, and more importantly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the cat is the pet of choice for a lot of Malays. I am not ignoring those who keep songbirds, aquatic organisms,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and other animals. However when it comes to keeping a little mammal quadruped, one is playing the choice between a cat or perhaps a dog. However the options are not merely a matter of default, one that has arisen from an ultimatum. There is a traditional folk story, possibly apocryphal, which described the Prophet Muhammad抯 affection for cats. Apparently, one day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his favourite cat, Muezza, fell asleep in the sleeve of his robe. Careful to not wake the kitty, the Prophet stop his sleeve so they won't disturb the cat抯 rest, and proceeded to perform ablutions for his prayers. It is interesting to me that a parable demonstrating the Prophet抯 compassion for an additional living creature continues to be interpreted because the elevation from the status of the cat in the Muslim world. However, hardly a big surprise in places where Islamic exegesis has been founded on notions of authenticity along with a Utopian past, in which the actions and words of the Prophet are taken as the prototype of ideal behaviour. Some cases of this anxiety to reproduce this prelapsarian state, depending on literal mimicry rather than adherence in principle, would come with the keeping of beards and also the wearing of Middle Eastern robes.
So, in answering the question 憌hat is it with Malays and cats? we enter an area where one begins to admit the potential of a racialised discourse. The kitty becomes a signifier of race, but an unsound one, susceptible to contestations and counter-claims. Several significations actually arise from a particular dialectic: when we ask what it is about Malays and cats, we also have to address the question: what is it about Malays and dogs?
The polarities between these two animals have often been made analogous with the polarities between two races: the Malays and the Chinese. Here I抣l rehearse some of the tropes which come in the identification of the Malay community with cats, trying to locate specific tricks of empowerment, resistance and self-definition.
Among the qualities of the cat, much valorised by the Malays, is its cleanliness. Using the tongue being an instrument for self-purification marks the cat being an animal that isn't only fastidious, but almost neurotic about hygiene. In positive self-representations of themselves, Malay-Muslims often make reference to their tendencies for private sanitation, a claim that sometimes borders on chauvinism. The pious perform ablutions before their prayers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the clearing of the waste orifice is as simple as water and not toilet tissue, and also the myth persists that people of other races do not take showers each morning,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], despite residing in a humid environment (this latter stereotype also compounds the status of the non-Malay Other because the immigrant settler that has yet to acclimatise himself towards the tropical colonised). Your dog, however, displays diametric traits梔ischarging its faeces on pavements, sniffing them with scatophiliac curiosity, peeing on posts with the uncouth gesture from the raised hind leg. For that cat: hygiene, discretion, privacy. When it comes to dog: filth, gaucheness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and disrespect of public spaces.
When i have mentioned, attributing an animal with certain racialised qualities often invites contrary readings. Your dog, when compared to cat, is considered to be a far more intelligent animal. It may be taught to perform tricks, to obey instructions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to reply to its master抯 voice and presence. It's considered loyal, in which the cat is temperamental. The dog抯 stable affiliations are contrasted against the cat抯 mercenary unpredictability. When one proposes significations like these, the cat as effigy becomes disabling: we're reminded of certain stereotypes with very real ramifications. The marginality of the Malay community in Singapore is often referred to as because of the disability to conform to the demands of the Confucianist state. Dogs would make the perfect Confucianist citizens because of their instinctive tendency to imprint on another party the status of a pack leader, to whom the dog offers unquestioning obedience. On the other hand, cats, naturally solitary and independent, represent the feral elements of society which require rehabilitation and institutional correction.
Similarly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the cat抯 inability to recognise a master is evoked in the discourse on Malay loyalty within the army; Malays are viewed to find themselves in conflicted positions when confronted with the scenario of the war with neighbouring Malay-Muslim states. The cat抯 obdurate refusal to be tamed also echoes the anxieties from the State in 慽ntegrating?Malays in to the remainder of Singaporean society, a prescription that's often pro-assimilationist in tone. When such equivalences between your feline and also the Malay reach a state of inextricability, I am reminded from the uproar once the Housing Development Board decreed that it would be against the law for cats to become kept as household pets. A policy was described by certain quarters as 憆acist? On the surface level, a policy seemed to privilege dog-ownership, and hence the default owners of dogs, namely, non-Malays. However, on a deeper level, grim resonances were evoked: of the State抯 various resettlement policies (like the de-settlement from the Malay-dominated Southern Islands) and forced housing quotas (based on race, where Malays are not allowed to occupy a lot more than 15% of a block抯 units). These policies, as have often been argued, were instrumental in eroding the electoral clout of the Malay community in Singapore by depriving them of a viable voting bloc.
Obviously, the polarities between cats and dogs also take a regrettable turn when media images perpetuate the fact that both of these animals are natural enemies. Simply by watching cartoons, you will be able to conclude that mice eat cheese, elephants possess a phobia of mice, and dogs and cats are constantly attempting to outwit each other. In this instance the risk does not so much lie in losing charge of a spectrum of significations, as demonstrated above, where it is obvious how these significations is often appropriated within the service of certain agendas. The risk here is in designating two identities (racial and animal) as not only being irreconcilable, but in perpetual antagonism. The violence in this case is not simply those of an epistemic arrest, or of anthropomorphic fantasy. The spectre of 憂atural?conflict has the potential to spill over into real, physical violence. A picture lingers: those of ex- Malaysian Deputy Pm Anwar Ibrahim appearing in public after his arrest, having a bruised left eye. Yoyo and Yaya found mind, their black eyes staring at me from the past. The problems for Anwar was sustained throughout his incarceration; the blow was administered by former Inspector-General from the Police, Tan Sri Rahim Noor. What triggered this outburst of violence was when a seething Anwar first saw Rahim and remarked, 慽ni dia,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], bapa anjing挆慼ere he is, the father of the dog?
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