tropical countries tend to have a more relaxed culture
meanwhile, the horror in next door Singapore...
One of the most important things to remember about Malaysian Chinese is that they are the only large group of Chinese who have
no country. By that I mean that the Malaysian government generally pretends that they don't exist. Their government reserves almost all the positions in government, civil service and state universities for so-called "indigenous" people, and frequently use so-called "indigenous-islamic" culture as the only represented form of national heritage. so Malaysian Chinese have to find their own education and enterprise privately, and protect their heritage themselves. Personally I find that they are more well-adjusted than Mainland or Singapore Chinese. It might be because there is no hypercompetitive one-chance-only system to stress them.
Also, white worshipping is also common among Malaysian Chinese, but it only takes the Taiwan Boba liberal flavour over there. In Singapore there is the "Wannabe Westerner" type among the upper-middle class, but most of the white worshippers are actually still of the Boba type. The tricky part about Boba liberals is that they may speak primarily in Mandarin/dialect, watch only Mandarin TV and listen only to Mandopop etc but may very well be
more anti-China than people who appear more Westernized like Christians.