Oh, my best friend is Malaysian so I’ve heard a bit about the racism thing. Well basically, there are a 3 main ethnic groups in Malaysia: Chinese, Malay, and Indian/ other South Asian people. Plus some other minorities as well.
The Malays are the indigenous people, like the Aborigines in Aus. It’s a known fact that the Chinese people control most of the country’s wealth. And just as any other nations with a mixed population like that, there’s bound to be racism & discrimination.

It’s a bit similar in Indonesia too. I remember back in 1997, during the Asian economy crisis, there were horrible racial riots happening everywhere in Indonesia, & Malaysia, between the ethnic groups. Some of my Indonesian friends (of Chinese background), when they went back to their home country, had to stay locked inside their compounds for months. It was awfully sad. Thank goodness the situation’s improved a lot since then.

Anyway, as you can see in the clip, Hong Ming is of Chinese descent while Umi is Indian. So that’s the message they were sending across, that the children are “colour blind”.

Oh, and in case someone’s wondering why the kids speak English so well. I’ve heard that in Malaysia, English is quite prevalent in the media. Many schools over there teach everything in English, with Malay (their official language) or other Asian languages only taught as an optional or compulsory second language. So I’ve seen some ads from Malaysia encouraging citizens to use Malay more.