the last-most thing (aside from the very relevant and legitimate issue of the treatment of domestic help) was not even Malaysia's fault. Some dude at Discovery channel or something, were cutting an ad for Malaysia, and used stock video of the Balinese kechak dance. Sampai naik parlimen wooo (yours lah :D). It got to a point that supposedly this fringe group called Bendera claimed tht it's got it's people ready to ganyang Malaysia again. The trolls in the M'sian online-world were very disappointed when the supposed day came and we didn't kena ganyang. Anyway, yeah, got more than a few FB anti-M'sia groups as well, out of that.

re: bilinguality - that's an interesting and true point. You are more familiar with it so I'll take your word for it, but I will say, comparatively the Malaysian translation market is more lethargic. :D