Cultural Values In Malaysia

1. Introduction

Culture means the accumulative of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and through individual or group striving in the course of generations to acquire the possessions. Human is being learned to do, to use, to produce, to know, and to believe as they grow maturity and live out their lives in the social group to which they belong.

Food, arts, music and dance

Without such things is a society without soul.

2. The importance of culture

2.1. Moral values

Following a culture instills moral values in us. Every culture has its share of knowledge and beliefs which make us better human beings. It makes

Malays account for more than half of the country’s population, about 30 percent of the Chinese population, and about 10 percent of Indians and other minorities. These people have different religious beliefs, different lifestyles and cultural differences are very obvious. Despite the brief conflict between the Malays and Chinese in1969, they were able to coexist peacefully for a long time. In a country where many people live together in such a country, the coexistence of multiple cultures can be seen everywhere. The most intuitive is the large city building, Islamic, Chinese. Indian temple type and modern western-style building, various style harmonious coexistence, the exhibition charm, each into an extraordinarily splendor. Under the construction of life of people also like building style and features, the masses of all nationalities to try to keep their traditional culture at the same time, to look again and diluted and alien culture tolerant attitude. Malaysia is a nation of farmers, so it maintains many primitive beliefs, especially the strong religions colors of all ethnic groups. Its religion is a mixture of Islam, Hinduism. Due to the long-term common life of many nationalities, a pluralistic cultural characteristic is formed. The Malays believe in Islam. Since Malays are politically

In Addition,because this culture shape a society.People of different races live in their own cultures.When people with different cultures get together,they form a new society.For example,Malay&Chinese people together,there is the appearance of Boba nyonya.Malaysia has a culture of its own because of people of different ethnic cultures living together.So,multi-ethnic can create many new sample.This culture shape a society is divided into many kinds is cultural pluralism,multicultuaraism, cultural acculturation,globalization so on.Besides,cultural pluralism is there are many kinds of cultural customs in a society.For instance,in China, where different ethnic groups live together cultural coexistence is common.But can the future be diversified?Some anthropologists think;”yes”;Some think that it may also merge into a large culture.At present,in many countries,the material culture tends to be the same,but the cultural characteristics of the ethnic groups have not become smaller,but are expanding.Secondly, multiculturaism it is a kind of social and political philosophy,which advocates that in a large society,different cultures and values should be relative and equal,and should not be divided into high and low levels.In recent years,it has been used to explain the ethnic cultural policies of some democratic countries,such as the United States,Canada,Australia,etc.In these countries in the process of the formation and implementation of public policy,or associated with major social