Today our Ethnic Relations subject lecturer had done revision of last class lecture. He used 15minutes to ask us some questions and meanings that we done in puzzle. Sir asked two special words that’s the different between enculturation and acculturation.

As I know, meaning of enculturation is the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture. However, acculturation means the modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture. Addition for the meaning is that the process by which the culture of a particular society is instilled in a human from infancy onward. Besides that, Sir also asked us other meanings such as pluralism, discrimination,prejudice and so on.

After revision session, Sir was given us two pieces of papers for every group as our today class activity. The activity is creates dialogue for the comics. Furthermore, we can draw another character to make it more interesting. To make it nicer, we are able to color every character in the comics. This is a group work and I am worked with my group members. They are Lee How Cheh, Wong Chun Yuan, Heng Poh Chai, Ching Wai Hoong and me. For beginning, we all are headache with it because we have no idea about it. In half an hour period, we are able to created dialogue for every comic. The roughly idea was came from a word, Racism. We will try to make the dialogue interesting so readers won’t get bored of it.

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Basic Concepts of Ethnic Relations

Ethnic Relations:


From the last lesson, Mr. Mohd Azam distributed a form of sheet which related to the basic concepts of Ethnic Relations. The first portion of the paper mentioned to need us finding out the keywords which regarded to the concepts of Ethnic Relations. In my group, my partner (Goh Swee Tian, EA08100) and I (Ching Wai Hoong, EA08019) had been successful to find out all 12 keywords of the word-finding form. Although we managed to find out all these words, we felt that these words were not familiar and we couldn’t understand all these words vividly and explicitly in the deep meanings. Therefore, I would like to share the detail meanings of all these 12 keywords which regarded to the basic concepts of Ethnic Relations.
1. Assimilation: The process of absorbing, understand and using new ideas.
2. Nation: A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government.
3. Pluralism: A condition in which numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are present and tolerated within a society.
4. Racism: Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
5. Segregation: The policy, act or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups which as a form of discrimination.
6. Accommodation: The process which is to realize each ethnic groups to respect others ethnic groups due to defend and preserve the cultural life respectively.
7. Discrimination: Partiality or prejudice or even unfair treatment of a person or racial group.
8. Prejudice: An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
9. Ethnocentrism: Belief in the superiority of one’s ethnic group.
10. Stereotype: A conventional, formulaic and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
11. Acculturation: The modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture.
12. Enculturation: The process by which a person adapts to and assimilates the culture in which he lives.

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20th July 2010

20th July 2010

Today our lecturer start the lesson by a recap on German Day which was an event organised in UMP Gambang. Mr. Ahmad gave an analogy on why German can be a well developed technology country. This is due to the fact that German is more advance in academic as their education system is basically based on research method. This remind us of what we need the most is to have more practice and self independent into practising the knowledge that we have gain and not just receiving the knowledge without proper work out.

Besides, we learn the difference between ethnic and race. Race is something physical such as skin colour which is inherited. Whereas ethnic is in terms of languages, tradition, culture, identity and religion which can be learned and shared together with each other.

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competition-exists in the field of education and economic. Everyone fights for a place to enter local university, in choosing courses and to gain scholarship. In terms of economic, job opportunity, tender, contracts and marketability are the common things in competition. This competition if positively practice will helps ones to improve themselves in order to have themselves into the competitor's group. This will lead to a country with a more self independent and high spiritual's citizens.

Cooperation-we can see this cooperation in Barisan Nasional politic party. This Barisan Nasional Party consists of three sub party which are UMNO,MCA and MIC. Cooperation, understanding, unity among each other has succesfully enable this party to work well and being given the trust from the citizen to lead the politics.

Conflicts-For example is the black dot on our nation history which happened on the 13th May 1969. At this time there was a riot and fights in between two races which resulted on many deaths. This conflicts should be well handle and a more compromise way should be taken in order to achieve a stable and peaceful living environment.

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