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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Malaysia - A unique melting pot

The unique thing about Malaysia is that this a country long time ago have decided on the integration approach. The approach is that the immigrants who have been granted the citizenship can still retain their identity from their home country. Therefore their kids can go to their special schools learning their home country's language, and even use syllabus from their home country and also retain their name based on their original country's name. As for Indonesia, the country longtime ago adapted the assimilation approach. The immigrants who have been granted citizenship must use Indonesian name, go to Indonesian school and learn Indonesian language.

Therefore, today you can see that if you go to Indonesia, you can only see one single Indonesian culture that is only unique to that country. The same thing if you go other asean country such as Thailand and Korea. If you go to these countries cultural performance night, you can only see one cultural performance. But, this is not the case in Malaysia. If you go to a Malaysia cultural performance, you are shown a chinese culture performance that is similar to China, the Indian culture that is similar to India and also even portugese culture! The only unique thing and not similar to any other country is the Malay cultural performance. So, it is indeed a unique country since assimilation did not take place and therefore you have a bit of China, a bit of India and with the background of Malay and also Sabah & Sarawak culture in our society. It is best to say that we have a Rojak society.. And it is the best Rojak society in the world

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