Ethnic Relations FORUM Queries

For the last lesson, lecturer claimed that to get ready for the forum of the coming next class. In addition, a form of paper has been distributed to each group in order to fill-up the forum queries. the following is the queries we have done and gotten ready to use them for asking the certain group in forum for next class.

Topic	Queries
*Malacca Period · Politics · Economy · Social	Ø What are the changes of cultures from Malacca Sultanate till the colonization of Portugal? Ø What is the influence of value and culture of Malacca Sultanate era on the contemporary practical development?
*Colonial Period · Politics · Economy · Social	Ø British colonized amalgamation gained many benefits and also disadvantage. Please clarify it. Ø In the aspect of economy, why did British need to colonize of migration of many Chinese and Indian people to Malaya?
*Japanese Occupation *Communists Intermission *Malayan Union	Ø Why Malayan Union was not approved by citizen of Malaya? Ø Why Communist Party of Malaya would exist at that period?
*Fighting For Independence *Confrontation *The Formation of Malaysia	Ø In the Formation of Malaysia, how did different ethnics achieve its unity in this formation?
*The Separation Of Singapore *1969 Riot *MAGERAN	Ø Is the separation of Singapore from Malaysia is as in voluntary or being forced? Ø How 1969 Riot had brought out the formation of MAGERAN?
*Unity Efforts · Politics · Economy · Social & Cultural	Ø What are the relations between 1 Malaysia concepts with these 3 aspects? Ø How new economic policy helps in uniting the Malaysian?
*ER From The Aspects Of: · Religion · Education · Constitution · Instability	Ø Is there multi religious affecting our ethnic relation? Clarify it. Ø How to solve ethnic problems in terms of education in Malaysia?

Topic	Queries
*Malacca Period · Politics · Economy · Social	Ø What are the changes of cultures from Malacca Sultanate till the colonization of Portugal? Ø What is the influence of value and culture of Malacca Sultanate era on the contemporary practical development?
*Colonial Period · Politics · Economy · Social	Ø British colonized amalgamation gained many benefits and also disadvantage. Please clarify it. Ø In the aspect of economy, why did British need to colonize of migration of many Chinese and Indian people to Malaya?
*Japanese Occupation *Communists Intermission *Malayan Union	Ø Why Malayan Union was not approved by citizen of Malaya? Ø Why Communist Party of Malaya would exist at that period?
*Fighting For Independence *Confrontation *The Formation of Malaysia	Ø In the Formation of Malaysia, how did different ethnics achieve its unity in this formation?
*The Separation Of Singapore *1969 Riot *MAGERAN	Ø Is the separation of Singapore from Malaysia is as in voluntary or being forced? Ø How 1969 Riot had brought out the formation of MAGERAN?
*Unity Efforts · Politics · Economy · Social & Cultural	Ø What are the relations between 1 Malaysia concepts with these 3 aspects? Ø How new economic policy helps in uniting the Malaysian?
*ER From The Aspects Of: · Religion · Education · Constitution · Instability	Ø Is there multi religious affecting our ethnic relation? Clarify it. Ø How to solve ethnic problems in terms of education in Malaysia?

Good Try And Good Lesson

The acting gave us a huge encouragement and provided us a good opportunity to show ourselves with the self-ability to accomplish this entertained task. During the acting session, we felt super surprised and excited since we all knew that this try to us to do the demonstration based on the relevant titles.

Perhaps, we were not the perfect group still existed many drawbacks when we were taking the acting. Nonetheless, we had already given ourselves a good try and excellent enjoyment on this acting. All of us gave ideal cooperation and spirit until we could manage and succeed the acting task perfectly.

From the recommendation from Lecturer, we all were surprised since he gave comments that even we had some weaknesses, nevertheless, we were the group that could demonstrate oursleves naturally and had a high spirit and cooperation. This is very happy and glad news to our group, this is a super encouragement to us in order we can try our best for the following activities.

What we learnt from 3days of acting?

Having three classes session to complete all the comic acting by all the groups from E31 sessions, we definitely gain a lot. Maybe this activities seems to be out from the topic of studying Ethnic relations for certain people, though it actually benefits all of us.


Firstly, we learn all the history of the past that has been the key and also the story of success in our country. This histories involves the interaction between all ethnics for example in the history of formation of Malaysia, riots during 13 may 1969 and so on. This history is the best source of keeping us to be ready and to create a peace environment in order to preserve all the success that we have gained in the past as well as to improve ourselves from the lessons learnt from the past.

Next, we get to prepare ourselves in presenting ourselves in public. Since acting requires courage as well as concentration, it helps us to build up our confident when facing others in public. Not to forget, we could express ourselves in the class. Rather than having a normal class session , we get to involve ourselves in contributing the ideas and knowledge to everyone in the class. The lesson becomes more interesting and lively with this kind of activities.



Overall, our group has benefits a lot from here. We get the fun and excitment in attending classes that we normally dont get it and we also learn many things which we always wish to by an alternative way besides reading from books and slide presentation. Thanks to all my group members for having a good time with me in acting out the comics drawn and also thanks to all my coursemate for giving us a wonderful time together. Not to forget to Mr. Ahmad who has come up with such briliant activities. May the joy and excitment continues for times to come.

Comic Drawing

Communist Intermission

The first drawing of our comic is based on the situation during the communist intermission in year 1930.It is drawb by Lee How Cheh. This comic briefly desribes the events that took place during that period of time.

Japanese Occupation

This comic drawn by Ching Wai Hoong is based on the time when Japan invaded
Tanah Melayu and How Japanese had treated the citizen here. Cruelty, unfairness, and wildness are best to describe during that time.

Malayan Union

The third drawing is drawn by Lam Kheng Yik. This is about the flow of events that had took place during Malayan Union. From the British arrival till the abolish of Malayan Union is clearly described and shown from our comic.

At the end of this session, we took a picture with our lovely lecturer Encik Ahmad as for rememberance. May the joy and fun during this class will be remembered forever and more inteesting activities will turn up in the coming classes.

The photo of our Wonderful-Sharing Group holding our very own comics drawn and created with the ideas based on ethnic relations.

Dialogue

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.

EA08127, E31

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.

EA08019, E31