critical literacy
KOLEJ PROFESSIONAL MARA
INDERA MAHKOTA
CRITICAL LITERACY
COM2533
ASSIGNMENT 1
ANALYZING THREE ARTICLES CRITICALLY
PREPARED BY
FATIHAH BINTI KAMAL
IDI 11-07-148
PREPARED FOR
MADAM ZARIATI RADZALI
THE INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY ON THE MALAY RACE
TOPIC
“The Influence of Heredity on the Malay Race” which was written by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad is a discussion type of text. The writer is with an aim to convince the Malays to change their mentality regarding to the importance of enriching the Malays gene, it can be proven when the writer stated in paragraph 1,line 6 “in my view hereditary factors cannot be dismissed lightly, and if they are known and admitted, then it would be easier to curb them.”
CONTENT
This article summarizes the factors that lead to poor performance of Malays. In this article Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohammad criticizes Malays which is his own race, and emphasize on how crucial is the Malay to improve their hereditary. He explained that the poor performance of Malays is related to the poor quality of Malay’s heredity and he have mentioned several factors that lead to the poor quality of Malays, such as disallow intermarriages and prefer to remain as purebred, favor to marry their own relatives instead of other races. In this point, the writer stress that intermarriages are very important because it enriched Malays stock. The second factors is the habit of marrying at early age, the writer exposed the effect of marrying at early age towards our next generations. Those who are marrying at early age remain dependent on their parents to take care of their own children due to the unready to take care of their children by themselves. In this case, the upbringing of the children is distorted by the well known excessive indulgence of grandparents. The last one is, how Malays being too
INDERA MAHKOTA
CRITICAL LITERACY
COM2533
ASSIGNMENT 1
ANALYZING THREE ARTICLES CRITICALLY
PREPARED BY
FATIHAH BINTI KAMAL
IDI 11-07-148
PREPARED FOR
MADAM ZARIATI RADZALI
THE INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY ON THE MALAY RACE
TOPIC
“The Influence of Heredity on the Malay Race” which was written by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad is a discussion type of text. The writer is with an aim to convince the Malays to change their mentality regarding to the importance of enriching the Malays gene, it can be proven when the writer stated in paragraph 1,line 6 “in my view hereditary factors cannot be dismissed lightly, and if they are known and admitted, then it would be easier to curb them.”
CONTENT
This article summarizes the factors that lead to poor performance of Malays. In this article Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohammad criticizes Malays which is his own race, and emphasize on how crucial is the Malay to improve their hereditary. He explained that the poor performance of Malays is related to the poor quality of Malay’s heredity and he have mentioned several factors that lead to the poor quality of Malays, such as disallow intermarriages and prefer to remain as purebred, favor to marry their own relatives instead of other races. In this point, the writer stress that intermarriages are very important because it enriched Malays stock. The second factors is the habit of marrying at early age, the writer exposed the effect of marrying at early age towards our next generations. Those who are marrying at early age remain dependent on their parents to take care of their own children due to the unready to take care of their children by themselves. In this case, the upbringing of the children is distorted by the well known excessive indulgence of grandparents. The last one is, how Malays being too