The Ethnic Groups in Malaysia and Its Culture

The Ethnic Relation and Culture in Malaysia. By just looking at the title above, you know what I am going to talk about. Yes, you are right, the culture of our magnificent country. Our country is actually envied by many foreigners. Why? Well, one of the main reasons is because of how we Malaysians can live in harmony for many years, even though we consist of many different races and ethnic groups. The culture of our country started out with the unique combination and amount of ethnic groups in our country. Let’s understand more of our country’s ethnic group before we go on shall we?

Let me briefly introduce to you the three major ethnic groups in our country, the Malay, Chinese and the Indians. Firstly, the Malays, also known as the bumiputras of the country, which means “son of soil”, they also make up our country’s largest ethnic group, which cover more than 50% of the population. Their skin tones tend to be a little bit light-brownish and most of them are born with beautiful double eyelids. Most people in our government are Malays and not the offend anyone; Malays in our country receive better benefits compare to the other ethnic groups. In my opinion, it is very hard to achieve equality in this country due to this.

Secondly, it will be the second most populated ethnic group in the country – The Chinese people. I, being in this particular ethnic group, have pretty much information to tell. The Chinese in this country are actually descendents of ancient China. A very long time ago, when the British ruled our country, they needed people to be work in rubber fields or do mining. Many of our Chinese ancestors chose to come to our country not because they want to work and earn money; most of them came to our country to escape from the war that occurred in China or were forced to come because the British were conquering China then. Chinese people are fairly fairer and they are mostly born with almond shaped eyes. Not to forget that they are also