Some cheeky neighbor!

Being next door neighbors, we practically enjoy the same food, breathe the same air, smell the same sea breeze. Like it or not, proximity wise, you cannot help but see some going-on in your neighbor's house and vice -versa. Would it it be taking it too far if I say, next door neighbors would be able to recognise each other across a darkened room? Well, you probably would be able to (recognise each other) if you have been neighbors your whole life long.

Do our neighbors really think this is how we look like?

This text accompanied the photo:

Title:	[A Malay man in traditional clothing : single]
Subject:	Ethnic Communities Malays--Malaysia--Malaya--Photographs Malays (Asian people)--Singapore--Photographs Malays--Clothing--Photographs People and communities>>Social groups and communities
Digital Publisher:	National Library Board Singapore, [19--?]
Description:	This photonegative shows a Malay man, bare-bodied and barefoot, standing with his right arm akimbo and his left resting on the trunk of a palm tree. He wears a headcloth and a white cloth with its two ends dangling down in the front and rear of the lower part of his body. Title devised by Library staff.
All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2008.

Dear neighbors,

Stop being cheeky and update yourself. The Malays , in your country or here, have not looked like that for many, many, many years. In fact that photo was that of an Orang Asli (no offence intended) also many, many, years ago.
The only reference to time is at the Digital Publisher (19--)

Be kind and neighborly, isn't that how you want us to be?

Can't we be friends?