A deeper look into Malaysia
Malaysia , is a well known place in the southeast asia . Im sure , most of the people heard of having great food in Malaysia , visiting the twin tower , known as the top ten tallest building in the world. What else you heard of Malaysia ? Besides , good food , great views , Multiethnic Malaysia provides a unique case study of divergence in population aging of different sociocultural subgroups within a country. Malaysia represents 3 major ethnicities in Asia -- the Malay, Chinese, and Indian (Ud7ed2gm9k.search.serialssolutions.com, 2017). Although , we malaysian having different kind of skin tone colour , different religion , but we are all united . We respect each other beliefs and culture . Fun fact about malaysia are , theres different type of cultures , festivals .Our multiculturalism had made malaysia home to hundred of colourful festival . We malaysian get to experience different kind of festivals , such as , malay , they celebrate "Hari Raya ", for chinese , we celebrate , "chinese new year " , "moon cake festival" and more , lastly , for indian , " they celebrate "Deepavali ".
Can you believe that there's more than three kind of culture in Malaysia ?
On the other side of malaysia , there's people from sabah and sarawak. Sabah is the biggest state in Malysia , which located on the northern borneo . Sabah is an island, one of the most popular places that tourist will visit whenever they go to Malaysia .
The indigenous group of Sabah include Murut, Bajau,Kadazan Dusun, Bisaya, Kadayan, Orang Sungei,Brunei, Rungu, and other different sub groups. For Sarawak , Sarawakian culture has been influenced by Bruneian Malays of the coastal area.
Can you imagine , how wonderful , and how interesting that having different kind of culture in Malaysia ?
In Malaysia , malays are the largest ethnic group , they are known as the "Bumiputera " known as the native people , according to the research given . Chinese are the second largest ethnic group in malaysia , and we all are aware that most of the chinese speaks different dialect , such as hokkien , cantonese, hakka and more.
Indian , indian is the smallest of the three major group , most of the indian are from tamil. During the colonial times , indian migrated to malaysia , due to the poor economy they had , In malaysia , indian culture still remain strong until today . Besides malacca has a multi racial population of malays . chinese and indian ,
eurasian and pernakan is a part of malaysia ethnic group too. During 1511, malacca was conquered by the portugese , and portugese soldier's married the local women . Due to the resarch given , Malacca was at one point in time a Dutch colony.
Peranakan are descendants form chinese migrants who came first in malacca. They are knowns as the straits chinese , "Baba Nyonya " .
How did peranakan was developed in malaysia ? During long ago , the chinese traders that came down to malacca married the local malay women .
Don't you see Malaysia is a very crowded place ? Mlaysia has a warmth heart , friendly . We malaysian socialise each other , respect each other culture.
Although , we might have different skin tone colour , but we malaysain remains as one heart , one soul .
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Malaysian -chinese culture
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Malaysian -malay culture
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Malaysian -Indian culture
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