What Is Ethnicity And Ethnicity

In contrast to race, which people use to refer to biological and physical characteristics that distinguish one group of people from another, ethnic culture refers to cultural characteristics that characterizes and differs an ethnic group from one to another., in different point of view, it also means identification of an ethnic group is symbolized by common ancestry and cultural heritage. From their clan, country, or region of origin, distinctive foods, clothing, language, music, religion or family names and relationship, we could see their sense of belongings. It is confusing to differentiate between race and ethnicity, for example, many people consider Jews as a race, the inaccuracy lies in the fact where we fail to think that Jews are more

For people who have a low sense of ethnic identity, they always consider themselves as part of the majority, having a greater power, similar to the “national identity”, and there is no discrimination, there is a good example in Malaysia, The 1Malaysia concept, that makes the sense of “kita anak Malaysia”. In different point of view, our ethnic identity is not as firm. Meanwhile in the United States, Americans are attracted to their “roots”, it is something fancy to them as they have a higher sense of ethnic identity compared to Malaysian. From their fascination with their roots, we could able to say that ethnic work also refers to the ways that people establish, maintain, protect , and transmit their ethnic identity. For instances, women of Czech ancestry are involved in ethnic work by performing for a Czech community in a small town in Nebraska. There is also a common scenery where a Nisqually daughter is placed a traditional headdress on her head for a reenactment of a wedding ceremony as a technique to forge ties with their tribal roots although they are native Americans. Traditional musical instruments are always played by many African Americans in Philadelphia to maintain the ethnic identity of these Americans who trace their origin to the Africans. These are all ethnic cultures. In short, dance, music, musical instrument, clothing, and traditional wear

We need to learn from each and every ethnic groups to be a better human-being. No one is born racist or with prejudice, nowadays in Malaysia, we can see a lot of Malay and Indian are sent to Chinese school for their primary education, they learn about the Chinese culture, an Indian girl uses a pair of chopstick, a Malay converses effectively in Mandarin, these are all the greatest display of importance of ethnic culture, it shows that we understand each other’s ethnic culture, we accept it instead of criticizing. Sometimes controversial issues don’t exist and there are caused by ignorance, we all know that social medias are also biased to cause racism as they are controlled by the government’s absolute power, the 13 May 1969 incident is an example of it. ‘Wei macha, you want to makan here or tapau?’, it is what Malaysians is saying almost every millisecond at very corner of the country, a sentence that we can see mother tongues of 4 major ethnic group in Malaysia, in different point of view, it means integrity. Everyone is born with curiosity that makes us keep on learning from each other, we are attracted to other ethnic culture because of our curiosity to discover its differences. We all know that the work of achieving the 2020 vision starts with a good and stable relationship between ethnicity,