Racism In Malaysia

Sociologist coins Racism as enlighten processes of group boundary maintainers, groundworks of racial imbalance and supporting philosophies and orderly examples of intergroup conduct (Jackman, 1994; Lamant, 2000) which later, the study has been broaden to incorporate multiracial and multi-ethnic comparisons regarding both key economic (Smith, 2001). Racism is not something that is bizarre in any parts of the world especially to a community that is cultural diverse such as Asian. To shed the light on the issue, Peninsular Malaysia has been labelled as “average” or “selective” racists based on a survey on Racist Index conducted by Centre for a Better Tomorrow (Cenbet), scoring 59.1 per cent on the index (Azlee, 2015). Days after ratchet days,

Although the government-effort seem to be promising, it does not solve the issue as a whole because its force the community to accept that the unfairness treatment along the race. According to functionalism perspectives, Talcott Parsons viewed society as a system. He argued that any social system has four basic functional prerequisites: adaptation, goal attainment, integration and pattern maintenance. These can be seen as problems that society must solve if it is to survive. Adaptation refers to the relationship between the system and its environment. In order to survive, social systems must have some degree of control over their environment. Food and shelter must be provided to meet the physical needs of members. The economy is the institution primarily concerned with this function. Goal attainment refers to the need for all societies to set goals towards which social activity is directed. Procedures for establishing goals and deciding on priorities between goals are institutionalized in the form of political systems. Governments not only set goals but also allocate resources to achieve them. Even in a so-called free enterprise system, the economy is regulated and directed by laws passed by governments. Integration refers primarily to the ‘adjustment of conflict’. It is concerned with the coordination and mutual adjustment of the parts of the social system. Legal norms define and standardize relations between individuals and between institutions, and so reduce the potential for conflict. When conflict does arise, it is settled by the judicial system and does not therefore lead to the disintegration of the social system. Pattern maintenance refers to the ‘maintenance of the basic pattern of values, institutionalized in the society’. Institutions that