During this period, UMNO and pro-Chinese organisations frequently traded insults, with current Prime Minister, who was then UMNO Youth Chief Najib Razak.
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Although most frequently used to refer to foreign immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, pendatang asing has been used by some politicians in Malaysia as pejorative way of addressing non-Bumiputera Malaysians.
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In a Malaysian political context, it is commonly used as a pejorative way of addressing the ethnic Chinese and Indians, who are not Bumiputera of Malaysia.