Identification of Ethnic Groups in Malaysia

An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common culture. Groups can have a shared history, common ancestry, religion, language, traditions, and beliefs. These things make up a common culture that is shared by members of an ethnic group.

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

Despite the all evidences that politics is allowing all kind of cultural diversity to grow within same territory. Those countries which have different cultures are trying to make their state a multicultural state in order to live with peace, for growth and development. This paper discusses about the past present and future of multiculturalism. Cultural diversity from very beginning was existing in different nation There are Jews in Germany, Poles in Ireland, Asians in Canada and so on but the level at which Multiculturalism have reached today became a political issue for those countries which have cultural diversities. People of different cultural diversity are enjoying the same rights and people are practicing different cultures as and extended form of their liberty. People have the freedom to do whatever they want but with in the framework of laws.So the people are exercising the libety of practicing their own culture.There is a discussion about remarkable history of multiculturalism, present position of multiculturalism and the future of multiculturalism. There is advancement is polity for a better sustainment of a country with diversity in culture of people. This popular master narrative is too quick to herald the death of multiculturalism, and mischaracterizes the nature of the experiments undertaken, exaggerates the extent to which they have been abandoned, and misidentifies not only the limitations encountered but also the options for addressing these

There is a divide between Western Malaysia and Eastern Malaysia. The primary exports to Western countries come from finished goods out of Western Malaysia, whereas in Eastern Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah) they primarily export raw materials to the Eastern world.

Firstly, the existence of multiculturalism must lead to some differences. But to be respected and enhance the freedom of others can reduce conflict of culture. Sometimes, religion faith can decide lifestyle and ideology of others. Every religion has their faith and rites. Based on the Australia bureau of statistics’ survey (2011), there were above five hundred diverse tribe group or nation around the state,

This paper will identify the ethnic identifications within individuals. Ethnicity is part of everyone’s identity development. Individuals may have one ethnicity or multiple, depending on their current location, homelands, generations, religion, environment, language/dialect, physical appearance, and more. A cultural individual is considered ethnic either by being first, second, or third generation. According to Phinney (1989), there are four stages of ethnic identity development: diffuse, foreclosed, moratorium, and achieved. They describe when an individual explores or does not explore their own ethnicity, and accepting clarification and understanding of ethnicity. An individual can be placed within these stages throughout their developing lives. It is important to recognize these stages within an individual to better apprehend their identity and where they perceive their own identity in their position.

Different dimensions of segregation (or its contrary) are recognized: exposure, evenness, clustering, concentration, centralization, extra factors. People are affecting the Multiculturalism from many ways such as a person which is the lives in one of the big city from USA in New York and other person which is the lives in Turkey’s Diyarbakir city. Those people exactly not same because the above affecting things.

Negative aspects of multiculturalism are also in effect, such as incoherence within a nation, loss of national identity, and conflicts among different ethnic groups. First of all, while differences are highlighted and encouraged, they are also a cause of disjointedness among the different ethnic groups in a country because they fail to function as one nation, instead forming small communities. This often causes a lack of communication between such ethnic groups and leads to a loss of unity in a country. Furthermore, immigration and pluralism often lead to a diminishment or complete disappearance of national identity in a multicultural country. An example of this is Canada because it was created on the basis of immigration without having its own distinct culture from the beginning, but choosing to include different cultures instead to become what is known today as a multicultural society. While generally it is seen in a positive light, it often raises concern that the country’s identity may disappear altogether in the future. Finally, intense pluralism is oftentimes a reason for riots and conflicts, indirectly related to immigrants or ethnicity. For example, in France tension among ethnic groups and riots have happened in the past because of the conditions of the communities where the original immigrants settled in, combining high unemployment rates and discrimination. (“France Riots”) Sweden

Many circumstances oblige people to move from their native country to a foreign one. From this movement of migration have emerged many ethnic groups. An ethnic group is a restraint number of persons living in a larger society and sharing the same distinct cultural heritage. Some people tend to bury their habits and accommodate to the new way of life. However others hold on to their identity and try to identify their race and maintain it. This enriches societies and makes them multi-racial. Therefore, every ethnic group is essential to complete the mosaic. Although they are sometimes threatened, minorities must fight to preserve their principles. Why must they fight? Because racial identification has many positive impacts on the members.

For this paper, a comparison between my culture; the Indian culture; specifically the Hindu culture and the culture of the largest ethnic group in Malaysia; the Malay

For instance, there are a few countries which became a victim of war and they lost their freedom of speech and their human rights. Besides that, they were threatening badly and were given no space to defend themselves or even their own country. We can take the case of the war crisis which is happening between Israel and Palestine. Hence, we should be grateful that we live in Malaysia where we live in peaceful ambience and we have never created any war or crisis with other countries. What are interesting about Malaysia is people in Malaysia experience multi culture society which is included Chinese, Indian, Malaysian and others. Multi-cultural festival which is existing in Malaysia unites the society because we get to know more acquaintance from diverse ethnic. Also, we can gain experience and knowledge about different culture and festival which make us tolerate and respect with each other. For example, when it comes to each festival, we will wear the traditional clothes to celebrate each festival with joy and we also respect each culture because we acknowledge it. In order to gain peace, society in a country should tolerate and understand each

What is harmony within diversity? Harmony within diversity is a concept of: "harmony without uniformly, diversity without fragmentation "that shifts focus from harmony based on a mere tolerance of physical, cultural, linguistic social, religion, political, ideological and psychological differences. Malaysia, a popular multiracial country. Malaysia has a population of 23.27 million consisting of 61percent Malays,31 percent of Chinese, 8 percent of Indian and 1 percent of other ethnic groups. Malaysia is unique because of its diversity of races, religions and cultural . Diversity of races, religions and cultural is our significant characteristics of our nation. Thus, unique to Malaysia is the "Open house "concept where during the various cultural and religious festival likes Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Adifiltri and Deepavali. This shows that we are live in harmony within diversity regardless of our individual background and it is important for nourished and cherished harmony within diversity in our daily life.

Men dominate the society in Malaysia over women. Men are the decision maker in the family but in modern Malaysia this trend is decreasing and more power is going to the women.

The population of Malaysia locate at over 28 million in 2012.Malaysia's population involved many ethnic groups, with the Malays at around 50.4% making up the majority and other

Malaysia is a unique country. It is made up of multi-ethnic group who are living in harmony. Conflict among ethnic group is rare and even if conflict occurs, is not to the extent of destroying the country. In fact, it is the diversity that drives the development of the country and makes this country colourful. Malaysia has been recognized by the world as a model for other plural societies. The concept of ‘unity in diversity’ is always insisted by the leaders. The concept is now supported with the ‘1 Malaysia’ concept which is introduced by the current Prime Minister. The Malaysian government is always put efforts to ensure the