Kadazan man denied room for not being 'Malaysian enough'

LocalPolitics
8 Jun 2025 • 10:36 PM MYT
Daily Express
Daily Express

Daily Express Online (Malaysia) is Sabah's top-ranked & most viewed English news site. It is also Sabah's leading & most circulated daily English newspaper.

image is not available

By: Sabah Publishing House Sdn Bhd

KOTA KINABALU: A Kadazan man took to social media to share a baffling exchange with a room rental agent who told him the room was for “local Malaysian only.”

Using the handle @kny_sunset__catcher on Threads, he posted a screenshot of his chat with the agent recently, where he tried to explain that Kadazans are Malaysians too.

It was understood that the agent ghosted him after that.

window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.defineSlot('/22826383987/dailyexpress_inline', [1, 1], 'gpt-passback').addService(googletag.pubads());googletag.enableServices();googletag.display('gpt-passback');});His post went viral, racking up over 1,000 reactions and 300 comments.

Many netizens chimed in with similar stories in the comment section, lamenting the ongoing ignorance about Sabah and Sarawak among some in the peninsula.