Transcultural Nursing
Multicultural Nursing in Malaysia.
Introduction.
Malaysian is multi religious and multicultural country. In Malaysia, there are
many cultural belief according to the race of people in Malaysia liked Malays
,Chinese ,Indian ,Bengali ,Pakistani ,Sarawak and there are divided into different sub-
group of ethnic and states and they also speak different languages and have different
cultures and trust . It is important to us, as health care providers to became culturally
aware and understand why people of different cultures have different health care needs
and require different approached to health care.
What is the different between culture, race, and ethnicity? Culture is a value
,beliefs ,and practices of a particular group ; ( Giger and Davidhizar,1995 ) incorporates
the attitudes and customs that are learned by socialization with others . They are passed
on from one generation to the next generation .The components of any cultural group
include to it’s language ,communication style ,traditions, religion ,art ,music ,manner of
dress ,health beliefs and health practices .
Race or biologic variations is a term to categorize people with genetically shared
physical characteristics for example include the skin color ,eye shape ,and hair texture. In
Malaysia normally we can recognize people in different race according to the skin color
,like Indian people normally in black skin color ,Chinese in white skin color and Malay
people normally in natural skin color. Normally, people who lives in a village like `orang
asli` ,we can recognize them thru the hair types. Normally these type of people have a
curly hair and dark skin and they also have the own dress that make them different to
another race and culture.
Ethnicity related to one’s social identity (Erikson 1993, Leininger 1995a) like
cultural practices , religious rituals, language used , as
Introduction.
Malaysian is multi religious and multicultural country. In Malaysia, there are
many cultural belief according to the race of people in Malaysia liked Malays
,Chinese ,Indian ,Bengali ,Pakistani ,Sarawak and there are divided into different sub-
group of ethnic and states and they also speak different languages and have different
cultures and trust . It is important to us, as health care providers to became culturally
aware and understand why people of different cultures have different health care needs
and require different approached to health care.
What is the different between culture, race, and ethnicity? Culture is a value
,beliefs ,and practices of a particular group ; ( Giger and Davidhizar,1995 ) incorporates
the attitudes and customs that are learned by socialization with others . They are passed
on from one generation to the next generation .The components of any cultural group
include to it’s language ,communication style ,traditions, religion ,art ,music ,manner of
dress ,health beliefs and health practices .
Race or biologic variations is a term to categorize people with genetically shared
physical characteristics for example include the skin color ,eye shape ,and hair texture. In
Malaysia normally we can recognize people in different race according to the skin color
,like Indian people normally in black skin color ,Chinese in white skin color and Malay
people normally in natural skin color. Normally, people who lives in a village like `orang
asli` ,we can recognize them thru the hair types. Normally these type of people have a
curly hair and dark skin and they also have the own dress that make them different to
another race and culture.
Ethnicity related to one’s social identity (Erikson 1993, Leininger 1995a) like
cultural practices , religious rituals, language used , as