ESSAY WRITING TO PROMOTE RACIAL UNITY AMONG STUDENTS
1.0 Introduction
Our people have lived together for generations in peace and harmony sharing the resources with which Nature had richly endowed our land. However, our nation building efforts were marred by the activities of destructive elements regarding the racial prejudices in a racial riot on May 13, 1969.This incident has becoming as one of the the most tragic race riots in the history of our country, between the Malays and the Chinese. According to a Time magazine report on May 23, 1969,”Malaysia’s proud experiment in constructing a multiracial society exploded in the streets of Kuala Lumpur last week. This is being told over and over again until the Malaysians are living in nightmare thinking of the racial segregation may develop the sense of hatred among different races in Malaysia.
Now, look at the picture, as we can see, we can predict how bad the riot has ruined the races apart at that time. The dead bodies were scattered all over the land. The incident kills a big amount of number of people in Malaysia.
There are several reason highlighted which has develop the racial riots in 13th May. First and foremost, The “Divide and rule policy” inherited from the British had made this racially diverse nation into a very ethnically divided country and existential policies that failed to bring to fruit a national identity. The situation appeared to make the Malays to remained Malays, the Chinese remained Chinese, the Indians remained Indians. The Malay can be competent in speaking Malay language but most of the Chinese and Indian couldn't speak the national language properly. They are on their own way of life without bothering other races. It has resulted, all the races to invo...
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The activities that can be done with the school students throughout the year which involve the students in every school in Malaysia.
3.3 Classroom Community
The activities that can be done in the classroom that will inculcate more opportunities for people of diverse races to meet and forge closer friendship for the sake of our nation's future.
3.1 Government
3.1.1 “Independence Day Celebration”.
Now, we will look into the activities that can be held by our Ministry of Education. Firstly, we can do “Independence Day Celebration”. From this activity, every school in Malaysia is required to celebrate it at the same time and venue. Here, they need to elect different races of students to represent their school during the celebration held. The celebration can be done in recommended venue which will be announced by our Ministry of Education. .
Immigration). The riot was finally put to an end by the United States Army (Educating About Immigration).
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