Cultural assimilation among Malays and Indians in Malaysia
This research is about the cultural elements assimilated within Malays and Indians in Malaysia. The cultural elements are including language, literature, roles and statuses of king, women, poets and Brahmins, beliefs & ideologies and customs & traditions. The scholar Munsyi Abdullah'...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/14815/1/0001.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/14815/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaya |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This research is about the cultural elements assimilated within
Malays and Indians in Malaysia. The cultural elements are
including language, literature, roles and statuses of king,
women, poets and Brahmins, beliefs & ideologies and customs &
traditions. The scholar Munsyi Abdullah's texts were chosen to
identify and analyse the Malays cultural practices because he is
the father of Malay modern literature in Malaysia. He had literate
his books with historical truths. Besides that, Texts of Tamil
classical literature also were chosen to identify and list out the
Indians cultural habits. The Tamil classical texts were compiled
some 2500 years ago in India and it witnesses the Tamils signified
the cultural practices in their daily life. The majority of the
Malays in Malaysia recognized as Malay descendants by their
mother tongue which is the Malay language. Indians had been
visiting Malaya as traders and merchants for over 2000 years,
but they did not settle down here as settlers until 19th century.
The formation of Malaysia under British colonization with multi
races of people encourages a good integration among Malays
and Indians and therefore there was a chance for them to adapt
and assimilate each other's cultural element. |
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