Social Etiquette of the Chinese People of Malaysia

Date : 5 December 2012 Venue : Online Discussion Activity : 6.0 - Social Etiquette of the Chinese People of Malaysia Of course there’s a lot of etiquette of Chinese people in Malaysia. The most important for Chinese is their surname. Basically the Chinese dominate the business community and live in urban areas. The Chinese traditionally have 3 names. The surname (family name) is first and is followed by two personal names. but many Chinese adopt more Western names and may ask you to use that instead. There’s also some culture that implement in their life such as if invited to someone's home, they will bring a small gift of fruit, sweets, or cakes, saying that it is for the children. But there’s also don’t such as do not give scissors, knives or other cutting utensils as they indicate a desire to sever the relationship. Flowers do not make good gifts as they are given to the sick and are used at funerals. We know that they believe the prosperity and the red colour that influence them very much. They do not wrap gifts in mourning colours - white, blue, or black. So that, they wrapped the gifts in happy colours - red, pink, or yellow. It is best to give gifts in even numbers since odd numbers are unlucky. Gifts are generally not opened when received.