Cultural: Malay, Chinese & India

Cultural

Assalamualaikum and Hello everyone!!! Alright, for the next entry I would like to share about the cultural between races that lived in Malaysia. In Malaysia, we have a few races such as Malay, India and Chinese. Even they are from different religious but they can still live in harmony and peace.

The culture of Malaysia draws on the varied cultures of the different people of Malaysia. Chinese and Indian cultural influences made their mark when trade began with those countries, and increased with immigration to Malaysia. The many different ethnicities that currently exist in Malaysia have their own unique and distinctive cultural identities, with some crossover. According to t Wikipedia, Malaysia is a multi–ethnic, multicultural, and multilingual society, and the many ethnic groups in Malaysia maintain separate cultural identities. For the Malaysians people, bahasa malaysia become our native language and the national language. Next, each ethnics have their own traditional clothing which is same with the Malays people. Their traditional clothes is baju kurung and baju melayu also for the muslims they are compulsory to wear the tudung, a type of hijab to cover their aurah. This clothes shows that their appearance look politely and beautiful.  

Next, the Chinese have been settling in Malaysia for many centuries, and form the second-largest ethnic group.The first Chinese to settle in the Straits Settlements primarily in and around Malacca, gradually adopted elements of Malaysian culture and intermarried with the Malaysian community and with this, a new ethnic group called emerged, the Peranakan ("Straits Chinese"). These Chinese have adopted Malay traditions while maintaining elements of Chinese culture such as their largely Buddhist and Taoist religion. The Chinese in peninsular Malaysia, they have more than one native language such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka and so on. For their traditional clothing, Chinese people wears cheongsam which is their favourite colour is red. Based on their beliefs, red colour bring good meaning or lucky for them. Besides, in Malacca, the Chinese people known as Baba Chinese or Nyonya for the women and their also have a different assent in their communication. 

The Indian community in Malaysia is the smallest of the three main ethnic groups, accounting for about 10 percent of the country's population. They speak a variety of South Asian languages. Tamils, Malayalees and Telugu people make up over 85 percent of the people of Indian origin in the country. Indian immigrants to Malaysia brought with them the Hindu and Sikh cultures. This included temples and Gurdwaras, cuisine, and clothing. Hindu tradition remains strong in the Indian community of Malaysia. A community of Indians who have adopted Malay cultural practices also exists in Malacca. Though they remain Hindu, the Chitties speak Bahasa Malaysia and dress and act as Malays.