Malaysian Youth Culture
MALAYSIAN YOUTH CULTURE
In this 21st century world, cultures have changed and so youth culture all over the world. In Malaysia, our youth cultures have made changes as the world’s culture change goes. Since Malaysia is a multi-cultural country so the culture of our youth today obviously has its varieties. From fashion to music and to the characteristics of Malaysian youth. Based on today’s fashion world, the young generations of today obviously have it ways to channel the influence of fashion into the youth culture. Seeing Malaysian youth, a lot of them are very trend following or some may say casual. Since Malaysia is a country of many races, fashion for the youth culture has its variations. If you were to step into a shopping mall today, you can see the both guys and girls wearing skinny jeans, tank tops, hot pants, checked shirts, converses and etc. Most fashion among our youth today is very globalize, taking from western countries like America, Britain and also from eastern countries like Taiwan, Japan or Korean. Besides being fashion globalize, Malaysian youth are also tradition based when it comes to clothing. Being in a Muslim country like Malaysian, we still have our limits of expose sure of clothes. Unlike western country where people can just wear a bikini top and walk out to the street. According to Malaysian law, the clothes that the people wear can’t be too exposed. Till today, you can still see Malaysian youth wearing traditional clothes like the “baju kurung” for the Malays, “sari” for the Indians. But not for the Chinese youngsters, they don’t really wear their traditional clothes much, except for special occasions. This shows how the youth of Malaysia still embrace their tradition and culture. Traditional wears aren’t just seen out in the streets, but also in works places, example: on every Thursday, government school teachers are compulsory to wear “batik” clothes. Even now, school uniform have the “baju kurung”
In this 21st century world, cultures have changed and so youth culture all over the world. In Malaysia, our youth cultures have made changes as the world’s culture change goes. Since Malaysia is a multi-cultural country so the culture of our youth today obviously has its varieties. From fashion to music and to the characteristics of Malaysian youth. Based on today’s fashion world, the young generations of today obviously have it ways to channel the influence of fashion into the youth culture. Seeing Malaysian youth, a lot of them are very trend following or some may say casual. Since Malaysia is a country of many races, fashion for the youth culture has its variations. If you were to step into a shopping mall today, you can see the both guys and girls wearing skinny jeans, tank tops, hot pants, checked shirts, converses and etc. Most fashion among our youth today is very globalize, taking from western countries like America, Britain and also from eastern countries like Taiwan, Japan or Korean. Besides being fashion globalize, Malaysian youth are also tradition based when it comes to clothing. Being in a Muslim country like Malaysian, we still have our limits of expose sure of clothes. Unlike western country where people can just wear a bikini top and walk out to the street. According to Malaysian law, the clothes that the people wear can’t be too exposed. Till today, you can still see Malaysian youth wearing traditional clothes like the “baju kurung” for the Malays, “sari” for the Indians. But not for the Chinese youngsters, they don’t really wear their traditional clothes much, except for special occasions. This shows how the youth of Malaysia still embrace their tradition and culture. Traditional wears aren’t just seen out in the streets, but also in works places, example: on every Thursday, government school teachers are compulsory to wear “batik” clothes. Even now, school uniform have the “baju kurung”