A Place card in one of the archival protest scenes claims “Unity is strength.” How does Mabo illustrate the importance of Unity?…
Nazaruddin Hj. Mohd Jali, (2003). Malaysian Studies Nationhood and Citizenship. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Prentice Hall.…
Most of the countries in this world are composed of people from diverse backgrounds. As for our country, Malaysia is a multi racial country, besides, the country is diverse in different religions, language and cultures from different races in our amazing country. Due to the difference in views and state of mind towards religion, culture and also language barriers, Malaysia is facing difficulties in uniting the people and integrating the nation, as well as creating a country where the people are unified. In concerning with this particular matter, it is important for the people of diverse backgrounds to get along. This writing will be addressed on the ways on how to create unity among multi- racial people.…
A tourist who visit Malaysia was wrote in News Straight Times about his wonderful experiences by visiting Malaysia. He is James Campbell is a Lecturer in Faculty Arts/ Education School of Education Deakin University Australia. He made a research on Malaysia by visiting Malaysia. Mr. James says that Malaysia is truly the world is because Malaysia has a multicultural characteristic that shows many of the world’s major civilizations. Secondly in regards to tourism Malaysia attracts tourists from all over the world partly because of this multicultural aspect.…
Malaysia has diverse culture following different ethnic groups. Some of the cultural attributes of the people include beliefs, language, politics, and religion. This attributes would affect the operation of the…
Also, Malaysia is a cosmopolitan country but we have three major races, that is Malays, Chinese and Indians. Even though we come from different races, background, language and skin colour, we live as a big family. Instead of argument, we choose to live in a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere. We treat other people brotherly or sisterly and always have great respect for each other. We took every problem to round-table talks. There are also small number of natives people, which included the Kadazan, Bisayah, Iban, Melanau and so on.…
Discussing about creating the nation-state in all country seems to be the same. It should include too many times, property or self-sacrifice in order to making the “intelligence typical patriotism stereotype” among the citizens. It is depends on the strategy that applied to achieve the goal of “united people”. Taken from Malay aphorism “melentur buluh biarlah daripada rebungnya” seems to be the correct words to explain the strategy of creating this sort of thinking to the Malaysian people. The meaning is, when we want to “train” somebody, we should to start from the beginning of his life. Back to the point, Malaysia consist of more over 28.3 million of population and separated into more than 50 ethnic randomly, and also consist a various believe and religion. However, they believe that they live in a peaceful and harmony country that no discrimination according to their ethnicity because they are in “one nation-state”. Thus, this mean the succeeded through the education able to abolished this sort of thinking. Primary school, is the first medium to educate the “fresh citizen” in order to create the citizen who love their country. Basically, Malaysia had two different elementary school that can be divide to three categories. There are “Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK)” which teach all Malaysian student with “no specific priority” and “Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK)” which we can divide to two, there are “Sekolah Jenis Kebangsan Cina (SJKC)” for the Malaysian Chinese and “Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT)” for the Malaysian Indian. For instantly, there is no obstacles to create this patriots even the school are separated. The question is, how do Malaysia do to overcome this problem?…
I love my country, Malaysia. Malaysia was once under British rule for more than 70 years. In 1957, our first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman has declared for Malaysia Independent Day. There are 28 million of people living in this country and the weather in Malaysia is always hot. The main city of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is a multiracial city which consists of few races: Malays, Chinese, Indians and numerous native peoples. Although we have different cultures, we still live together peacefully in Kuala Lumpur as we accept each other’s history. There are two main places in Kuala Lumpur that can reveal our unique culture: Wat Chetawan Temple and Petaling Street.…
On 3rd April 2009, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak unveiled a new concept - One Malaysia - as a guiding principle to build a united and progressive Malaysian nation in 21st century. The two paramount cardinal principles underlie in One Malaysia concept is to inculcate the spirit and values of togetherness and a sense of belonging among Malaysians, regardless of race, religion and creed.…
Patriotism is kind of strong passion which inspires one to serve one·s country. As one part from the society in Malaysia, we should always show loyalty and gratitude to our country. However, in Malaysia,does the people really love or respect the country? Based on the facts in Malaysia,newspapers and television news broadcasts have been full of calls by government ministers and officials for greater patriotism in the country. Malaysians, it seems, do not love Malaysia enough.Regarding this important issue,they are some certain parties playing main roles to overcome it.First and foremost,government always plays the most important part to handle this problem. Government will choose randomly to decide who are going to undergo the three months 'National Service' course. Through this program,the generation will have the opportunity to mix with different generation which came from vary races, religious and culture background.By going through the National Service course,the young citizens will have a better and deeper knowledge and eventually they will respect others people customs.…
With this One Malaysia concept, it helps to terminate this bad perspective and reunite the human races in Malaysia. This idea consists of two aspects, the application of solidarity and the application of aspiration values. Firstly, the definition of the application of solidarity is to unite all of the Malaysia citizen to become a single race, called Malaysian. Secondly, the application of aspiration values defined to apply a certain values to Malaysian such as integrity, loyalty, determined etc. According to source, there are three core elements listed in the primary aspect of One Malaysia that is mutual acceptance amongst the races, Nationalism…
UNITY OF THOUGHT •A sentence has unity if it expresses only one main idea. SENTENCE UNITY HOW TO ACHIEVESENT ENCE UNITY? Consistent Use of Tenses •…
Malaysia is a country where various ethnic groups live together in a pleasant and harmony atmosphere. Each ethnic group respect others ethnic tradition by the action of not cursing and give odd opinion about the tradition. All the ethnic group also help and befriend with each other regardless of race. Do you know what are the terms given by British Military Administration to the Federation of Malaya in order to achieve independence? Actually, one of the terms are the unity and cooperation of the people of Malaya and political races. When unity and cooperation are achieved, peaceful and harmony country will be created. However what are the reason and advantageous that will be achieved if the harmony within diversity in Malaysia are nurtured…
All Malaysians must bear responsibility to help achieve stronger integration and a more robust national unity.Malaysians must do this by preserving and protecting its many divers religions festivals and customs.Preserving and protecting this is part and parcel of our shared broader goals of achieving integration and national unity.In attaining these goals,all Malaysians must bear a collective responsibility.The effective way in enhancing racial integration is to hold open house on festive season,carry out gotong royong and to hold a cultural fair.…
A CALL FOR UNITY The people with the strongest claim to Abraham are those who followed him and this Prophet, and those who believe. God is the Protector of the believers. (Qur'an, 3:68)…