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Orang Laut berbeza berbeza orang Melayu kerana mereka hidup secara nomad dan tinggal di laut dalam perahu-perahu mereka sedangkan orang Melayu tinggal di kawasan penempatan di kampung-kampung di tanah tersebut.
===TheOrang MalaysMelayu===
Semasa Raffles tiba di Singapura, terdapat beratus-ratus orang Melayu asli yang tinggal di sana. Mereka terdiri daripada golongan bangsawan yang diketuai oleh Temenggung, pegawai-pegawai istana dan para pengikutnya serta Orang Laut. Selepas itu, angka-angka tersebut meningkat dengan kedatangan orang Melayu lain dari [[Tanah Melayu]] dan [[Kepulauan Melayu]].
When Raffles came to Singapore, there were already hundreds of indigenous Malays living there. They were made up of the nobility that were headed by the Temenggong, the palace officials and his followers as well as the Orang Laut. Subsequently, the numbers increased with the arrivals of other Malays from [[Malay Peninsula|Malaya]] and the [[Malay Archipelago]].
InDalam amasa matterbeberapa of several monthsbulan, hundredsberatus-ratus oforang MalaysMelayu fromdari [[MalaccaMelaka]] camedatang toke Singapore[[Singapura]], encouraged bydigalakkan theoleh British whoyang wantedmahu tomembangunkan developSingapura Singaporesebagai aspusat aperdagangan centredan for trade and administrationpentadbiran (Siebel, 1961:27). WhenApabila SingaporeSingapura becameberkembang morelebih developedmaju anddan theremempunyai werepeluang betterekonomi economicyang opportunitieslebih baik, manyramai orang MalaysMelayu fromdari Riau, [[SumatraSumatera]], [[PenangPulau Pinang]], Malacca[[Melaka]] anddan [[JohoreJohor]] camedatang toke Singapore[[Singapura]] (Roff, 1967:33; CensusBanci 1931:72). ManyRamai ofdikalangan theseorang MalaysMelayu livedtinggal indi thebandar-bandar townsdan andbekerja workeddi theresana (Siebel, 1961:35). TheBancian censuspada fortahun 1931 showedmenunjukkan thatbahawa thejumlah totallelaki numberMelayu ofyang Malaybekerja mendi workingSingapura hereadalah were as many asseramai 11,290 orang. Out ofDaripada thisjumlah numbertersebut, 18% workedbekerja assebagai fishermannelayan anddan as many assebanyak 12% livedhidup bydengan farmingpertanian the landtanah.
InPada thetahun 1930s1930-an anddan 1950s1950-an, manyramai Malaypenduduk residentsMelayu fromdari Malaya[[Tanah wereMelayu]] workingbekerja indalam thesektor Britishperkhidmatan uniformedberuniform servicesBritish. InPada 1957tahun alone1957, thereterdapat werelebih more thandaripada 10,000 Malaysorang workingMelayu inyang thebekerja uniformdalam servicessektor becauseperkhidmatan theseragam Britishkerana preferredpihak themBritish tolebih thememilih Javanese[[orang Jawa]] oratau MalaysMelayu fromdari [[Indonesia]] (Betts, 1975:41; Djamour, 1959:5). However,Walau duringbagaimanapun, thedalam periodtempoh 1957-1970, mostkebanyakan ofdaripada themmereka returnedkembali toke Malaysia when theirapabila termstempoh ofperkhidmatan servicesmereka endedberakhir.
===Orang Jawa===
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