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| nameofpractice = Duit kopi | | nameofpractice = Duit kopi | ||
| flagemoji = 🇲🇾 | |||
| definition = Lit. coffee money, a small sum of money given to a public servant as an inducement payment | |||
| location = Malaysia | | location = Malaysia | ||
| imagemap = | | imagemap = Malaysia map.png | ||
| | | categories = [[:Category: Malaysia|Malaysia]] – [[:Category: petty corruption| petty corruption]] – [[:Category: bribery| bribery]] – [[:Category: taxation| taxation]] – [[:Category: traffic police| traffic police]] – [[:Category: fine avoidance| fine avoidance]] – [[:Category: Bahasa Malaysia| Bahasa Malaysia]] – [[:Category: food| food]] | ||
| authorofpiece = Christian Giordano | | authorofpiece = Christian Giordano | ||
| authorinstitution = University of Fribourg (Switzerland) | | authorinstitution = Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) | ||
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}} | }} | ||
'''''By Christian Giordano, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)''''' | |||
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|style="font-size:1.1em;"| ''Duit kopi'', a Malaysian term for ‘coffee money’, stands for giving money with an expectation of receiving a counter-favour, although generally not a monetary one. In Bahasa Malaysia, ''duit'' is a very broad term for money, cash in particular, and ''kopi'' is the local name for coffee. The term ''duit kopi'' is a metaphorical and metonymical formula for a brief informal transaction between two individuals who do not know each other. It is a euphemism since it reformulates the cruder term ''rasuah'', the semantically more exhaustive but pejorative notion of corruption or bribe, into a more specific and more acceptable concept. ''Duit kopi'' does not point directly to a corruptive action, yet there is a logical contiguity between the two: an implication of an illegal monetary transaction. As a rule, this is a one-off event that will not occur again between the same actors. | |||
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An illuminating case is the relationship between drivers and the traffic police. Candid camera | An illuminating case is the relationship between drivers and the traffic police. Candid camera | ||
footage shot in Malaysia shows several examples of how drivers, especially those in heavy- | footage shot in Malaysia shows several examples of how drivers, especially those in heavy- | ||