“…10 Mandal (2001: 160) Gomez (2004b) for discussion on these issues and the impact of poor implementation of state policies on the state of Malaysia. 14 For more extensive discussion on Jit's stagings of difference in Malaysia, see Rajendran and Wee (2007). 15 Mitchell Cohen's (1995: 233) 'rooted cosmopolitan' frame proposes a 'dialectical concept' that 'accepts multiplicity of roots and branches and which rests in the legitimacy of plural loyalties, of standing in many circles, but with common ground'.…”