A Hybrid Community in East Malaysia: The Sino-Kadazans of Sabah and their Search for Identity
by Danny Wong Tze Ken

In 1962, an organization called the United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO) submitted a memorandum to the Cobbold Commission 1 outlining the Kadazan community of North Borneo’s (presentday Sabah) position vis-à-vis the idea for the formation of the new Federation of Malaysia. According to the memorandum, “Those who say that the country should first get self-government before thinking about Malaysia are people who belong to the immigrant races; people who have only been in the country for a few years or in the case of a few those who are at the most second generation North Borneans....https://umexpert.um.edu.my/file/publication/00001169_87046.pdf