A Nation's Culture

I. INTRODUCTION
There are quotes from preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi says, “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people”. But there are also quotes from American’s author, Ray Bradbury says, “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” (Berson, 1993). Culture is the acts and behaviour of some group of people, defined by many aspects such as language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and outfits (Aurel Mircea & Ioana Gabriela, 2015, p. 70). Malaysia culture is a combination of various traditions inherited from generation to generation of the last century. Due to the many races in Malaysia, hence, we will see multi-cultural in

In general, music of Malaysia can be categorised as classical, art, popular, folk and syncretic music (Minni, A.K., & ABu Talib Othman, 1998, p. 3) . The growth of technologies such as radio and television encouraged the musician to follow western music through what they have seen from watching TV, VCD and DVD (Adlina Ab. Halim, 2007, p. 185). The effect from these technologies can be seen through the entertainment and music channel. For example, our own organizers organize concerts that imported Korean artists to fulfil the youth’s demand for K-pop music (Zainal Ariffin, Othman, Abdullah, & Mohammad Arif, 2013, p. 13) . Besides, start from 2003, our local television stations has produced a lot of TV shows adapting from western TV shows. Some of these TV shows are ‘Akademi Fantasia’, ‘Mentor’, ‘Kilauan Emas, ‘Malaysian Idol’ and ‘Idola Kecil’ (Adlina Ab. Halim, 2007, p. 186). The high rating of these programmes shows Malaysian people support these programmes without have awareness to our traditional culture. Western music is now more acceptable than Malaysia traditional music among Malaysian citizens. It is prove that, technologies give negative impacts to Malaysian traditional