The Richness of Multicultural Heritage

Date : 3 October 2011 Venue : Botani Café, School of Computing Activity : 2.0 The Richness of Multicultural Heritage Finally, it come the real activity of EEP which is we have to discuss one of the core topic “The Richness of Multicultural Heritage”. We have to form a group of two persons and discuss about this activity. We must discuss about general view of Malaysian society. As we know Malaysia has a multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multilingual society which is the original culture of the area stemmed from indigenous tribes that inhabited it, along with the Malays who later moved there. Substantial influence exists from Chinese and Indian culture, dating back to when foreign trade began. When the government introduce 1Malaysia to its people, for me it is not a new thing to implement because we already practice the spirit of 1 Malaysia for a long time ago. That’s why it called multicultural heritage because we implement it ages ago. The rebranding of 1Malaysia make us unites in the diversity. What we need more is to maintain our stability of understanding, respecting among us. The uniqueness introduce Malaysia as a country that live peacefully even under different cultural. One example of ethnic is Malay. Malays speak Bahasa Melayu and mostly is Muslim. As a Muslim they celebrated two biggest events which is Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Hari Raya Aidil Adha. While Chinese celebrates Chinese New Year and India celebrate Deepavali. There’s a lot of ceremony by different etnic and have been celebrates by all Malaysian. For a long time, Malaysia’s multicultural environment has made our people adaptable. Combined with the ability to speak many languages and strong family ties to emerging economies of China, India and Indonesia, we have the recipe for success in a prosperous Asia. Malaysia should use this advantage to forge ahead in the new economic landscape by not only continuing to export manufactured goods, but also by massively increasing our ability to sell our services worldwide, especially in Asia.