‘Harmony within diversity’ a common phrase that always we heard in our globalization era. What we know about diversity? And what we know about harmony? It those important for our live? Malaysia is a multiracial country. Malaysia has a population of 23.27 million consisting of 61 percent Malays,30 percent Chinese, 8 percent Indians and 1 percent of other ethnic groups. Malaysia is unique because of its diversity of races, religions and cultures, the stability of the country and many places of interests
Talking about diversity, it is a wide-range word that may spawn many ideas. Some may think of the British street dance group. Unfortunately I am not going to talk about that. Diversity is too general that provides many things we see and be involved in our daily life. According to Cambridge Dictionary, diversity means the fact of many different types of thing or people being included in something; a range of different things or people. It can also be defined as the fact that there are many different
people in fear. In this 21st Century, we able to learn one another and understand our different cultures. Malaysia is one example of this. It is special in a way that its cities are surrounded with the ideas from different people. However, not all of Malaysia fully follow this but no matter where you look, Malaysia is a diverse and multicultural country where they accept their differences. Diversity means differences between human beings whether it being race, religion or nationality within one community
Diversity is a double edged sword. Since diversity is all about differences, often this leads to mankind abusing each other’s differences in opinions, colour and race. This has spawned numerous conflicts, oppressions, genocides and civil wars which became deadly poison to many supreme empires; for example, the Great Roman Empire. However as quoted from August Strindberg, “There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” From the various collaborative diminutive cells that make
laid by the government of Malaysia, has clearly stated that Malaysia inhabits about 2.1 million registered foreign workers, and illegal foreign workers summing up to about 1 million. As, Malaysia is the largest net importer of labor in Asia for its relatively well-developed economy, full employment and wages that exceeds most countries in the region, hence, we are likely to expect more foreigners with adverse culture background to reside in Malaysia (Minter, 2016). Malaysia, being a home for massive
adapt to the various cultural differences as well as be able to maintain a certain sense of individual identity. To be specifically, on the next two months my manager from America will be visiting Malaysia, I think it will be difficult as I had to adjust to the culture of the workforce due to the diversity that existed. There were many different patterns of speech and practices coming from the different people I worked with but soon enough I hope to be able to adapt at communicating with them which
citizenship in multicultural democracy. The idea of diversity holds within acceptance and respect. Each individual is unique and recognizing our individual differences. These are along the dimension of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical abilities and religion beliefs and other ideologies. It is more about understanding each other and clearing off a simple tolerance to accept and celebrate the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each
QUESTION 1 Describe the geographical location of Dubai. Dubai geographical coordinates: 25 ° 15 '8 "North, 55 ° 16' 48" East Dubai is located in the Persian Gulf, in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is the second largest emirate by area of 3885 square kilometres. However, it will grow to twice the size with the addition of artificial islands Waterfront Three Palms, World, Universe Land Dubai, and the construction in the desert. The time zone of Dubai is four hours ahead of GMT.
18 Ethno Cultural Differentiation in the Usage of Jamu As second megabiodiversity country, Indonesia is the melting pot of people, comprising a great variety of ethnicities, cultures, languages and belief systems. Globalization, free flow of goods, services and human asset, as well the modern lifestyles are changing the culture of food, health and beauty care in Indonesia. Fast food and chemical modern medicines are becoming more popular than traditional food and herbal medicines, which create