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Who We Are as Malaysians

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There is a lot of controversy over what constitutes a Malaysian.It is Malays, Chinese or Indian nation. Besides that, there is also a considerable argument over whether we can even be reasonably defined as a nation. There are some who say that Malaysian nation and Malay nation are the same. Of course, there are a variety of justifications for this. One goes that because the Malays are the majority, they set the ground rules and the other of course goes along the lines of that because the Malays were supposedly the original people of Malaysia. While the opposite argument is that every Malaysia’s citizen is a Malaysian.That is, as long as you hold a blue identity card, you are a Malaysian.But this isn’t necessarily true. ‘What if you just were registered with Malaysian citizenship because you were born to Malaysian parents but you have never set up foot in the country and you don’t even know the history of how Malaysia was built or how there was multiracial in our country. This means that what makes us Malaysian is who we are, what we have been through and how much we know about Malaysia. That are what make me and all of us Malaysian. The question arise, why I like being a Malaysian? One of the reasons is due to our friendly people that made me feeling so the medium of instruction for Mathematics and Science in all public schools. Malaysian English also known as Malaysian Standard English. It is a form of English derived from British English. Malaysian English is widely used in Business along with Manglish, which is a colloquial form of English with heavy Malay, Chinese and Tamil influences. The government discourages the misuse of Malay and has instituted fines for public sign that mix Malay and English. Many other languages are used in Malaysia, which contains speakers of 137 living languages. Peninsular Malaysia contains speakers of 41 of these languages. The native tribes of East Malaysia have their own languages which are related to, but easily distinguishable from Malay. Iban is the main tribal language in Sarawak while Dusunic language are spoken by the natives in Sabah. Chinese Malaysians predominately speak Chinese dialects from the southern provinces of China. The more common dialects in the country are Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese and Fuzhou. Tamil is used predominantly by Tamils, who form a majority of Malaysian Indians. Other south asian languages are also

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