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Culture In Malaysia Essay

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1. Introduction As Sabahan, I am glad and honour to live in Sabah. “The land Below the Wind” a phrase used by seafarers in the past to describe lands south of the typhoon belt (Jaswinder 2008:online) that has various ethics, races and cultural rich heritages. When we look into the dimensions of multicultural educations, no doubt our current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak once said 1 Malaysia integration (1 Malaysia) concept comes from Sabah and Sarawak model. (Fz.com: online) The structure of this written assignment would first provide the understanding of terms and definitions in the background about culture, according to Koentjaraningrat’ s, Edward B Taloyor’s and A Aziz Deraman’s culture theories. Then, illustrates how the components of culture help in understanding about children in preschool. At the same time, this written assignment would also take into consideration the cultural issues that happened in Malaysia’s Preschool. Moreover, this assignment will list ways in which prejudice, racism and discrimination damage development of children’s …show more content…

Schein (2004) defines culture as ‘a pattern of shared basic assumptions (beliefs) that was learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adoption and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be consideredvalid”. Since cultural aspects are considered valid and help groups for their survival, it is taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relating to those problems (Schein, 2004). Similarly Rapoport (1987) sees culture is “about a group of people who have a set of values and beliefs which embody ideas, and are transmitted to members of the group through enculturation”. Haviland (1993) describes culture as the common denominator that makes the actions of individuals attached to a group or not. Due to this strong link between “culture” and “group” they cannot exist without the

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