An economic marvel, commercial hub of Southeast Asia, efficient and corruption-free government and number one airport in the world; these are usually the images that appears to the minds of frequent travelers in Singapore. Lesser known are the unique ethnic cultures that form the major ingredients of what the entire Singaporean ...
By Soda Naoki Concepts of race and ethnicity rank among the legacies that British colonialism has left post-colonial states. Not until racial and ethnic classifications were adopted in fields as varied as school education, mass media, public administration, and legislation, could these colonial concepts be popularized. ...
The Mandailing people and homeland has been, thus far, exclusively and extensively studied and viewed in relation to and compared with the Batak to the north and the Malays to the east of its borders. The fluidity of the social-identity from being a Batak-Mandailing (Batak itself being a contentious ethnic tag) in Sumatra ...
Hindu influence in the Malay Peninsula was initially limited more or less rigidly to the upper class of old Malay society - the royalty. Malay royalty was essentially Hindu royalty descended, according to the Malay Annals, "Sejarah Melayu", from a legendary half-Indian and half-Greek monarch, Raja Suran, whose sons all bearing Indian ...
By B. D. K. Saldin, Artscope Daily News 14 January 2004 Much controversy has arisen about the origins of the Sri Lankan Malay Language and as to why it differs from that which is spoken in other parts of the Malay speaking world where the langauge has been standardized. Perhaps a brief history of the Malay language would ...
By Lailawati Mohd Salleh, Ohio University Abstract Globalization and workforce mobilization have prompted many scholars and searchers to conduct intercultural studies. In studies on eastern intercultural communication, research focus has been on the Japanese and Chinese cultures. However, there are other eastern cultures ...
By Rita Lasimbang and Trixie KinajilThis article examines the role the Kadazandusun Language Foundation has played in changing the language ecology of the Kadazandusun language. Over the period of he last15 years, the stateof the Kadazandusun language has undergonemajor progression that includes the making of a trilingual ...
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