Western culture is a body of knowledge derived from reason that began in Ancient Greece. There and in the Roman civilization it developed until the start of the Middle Ages when it largely vanished from Europe. During the Middle Ages, Western culture resided, instead, in the Arab / Persian world to a modest degree. Today, Western culture has at least some presence in nearly all nations of the world. It does not currently exist, however, anywhere in a perfect and complete form. Wherever Western culture exists, it is at least partially mixed, and often largely mixed with non-Western culture. Western culture represents knowledge developed from the reason that has been made possible because of a vast accumulation of understanding related to human nature, including nature and reality, happiness, rights, individualism and science and technology.
In Malaysia, Western culture came into influence when the Portuguese arrived in Malacca in 1509, and then captured Malacca in 1511. After that, Malacca had continuously fallen into the hands of Dutch, and then the British. The British gave the most impact to our country, as they changed the administration of the Malay States in Peninsular Malaysia. Since then, our people had been exposed to strong influences of the Western culture, for example in our lifestyle, clothings, language, attitude and thinking. Till now, our country is still under the influence of Western culture, mostly the British, as we are still using the English Law as reference for the legislation in our country.
Today, most of the youths in our country are influenced by Western culture. Western culture can be positive, for example, listening of western music and watching western movie can improve our language and increase our knowledge in Science and Technology. We can interact easily with tourist from other countries and leave a good impression to them. On the other hand,