In this section of the document, the challenges faced in social aspects of Orang Asli and Kadazan people will be elaborated. The sub-aspects that will be explained in detail are the challenges in education, technology, and modernization of the two groups of indigenous people.
3.1. Social Challenges of Orang Asli
Below are the list of challenges in the social aspect of Orang Asli, divided into different sub-sections such as challenges in education, challenges in technology, and challenges in modernization. Each sub-section will further be divided and elaborated as needed.
3.1.1. Challenges in Education
Education is one of the crucial components for people to stay out of poverty, especially for the Orang Asli community in Malaysia. The problem
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The British (through the North Borneo Chartered Company) made policies and arrangements for the education of the children of North Borneo. The British had some success with primary school education, and they seemed to have special treatments to the children of village headmen (most of them are Muslims).
However, they failed the secondary school education. This is due to the fact that much of the secondary school education was left to Christian missions, particularly the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. Most of the Kadazan children who went to school were educated at mission schools. Four of the specified schools were La Selle Secondary School and St. Francis Convent School at Jesselton, St. Michael 's Secondary School, Penampang, and St. Mary 's Secondary School, Sandakan.
As native parents were not aware of the significance and importance of education, there were not many students in the schools. However, mission schools are still playing an important role in the educational institutions to this day. These will continue to help shape Kadazan modern
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Challenges in Education, Technology, and Modernization
Kadazan people do not have any particular challenge in the three aspects as they are considered to have the same political, educational, and economic rights as the predominant Malay population in Malaysia.
In fact, many Kadazan intellectuals are studying masters in top educational institutions, working for think-tank companies, and becoming leaders for different types of organizations. Education is not a problem for the natives in Sabah and Sarawak, especially for Kadazan community.
As their economic rights are as strong as those of Malay people, the Kadazan community is able to sustain their own families with enough income. Being able to sustain their own families means that they have more time and resources left to spend on different new technologies from urban society. Access to information becomes significantly easier because of the adoption rate on internet.
Modernization has also affected the Kadazan community, as the fast and easy access to information exposes the people with concepts and lifestyles from different countries around the world, including those coming from developed countries such as United States of America and
Even the mere inequality of wealth in a child’s social, cultural, or educational setting can have effects on a child’s peer to peer interactions, hierarchical structure and their ability to achieve. Gorard 2010 as discussed in Victoria Cooper, 2014 (p160), links poverty and or social deprivation with lower academic results. In the Xiao Bo case study by Child poverty research and policy centre, 2013 (Heather Montgomery, 2014) it demonstrates the multifaceted effects of poverty on a child, such as the stresses it places on the family to educate children, pressure on the children themselves to succeed in education to enable them to assist with family finances and lifestyle, the compromises and sacrifices made as a family unit in lifestyle and financial planning in order to pursue education of the child, as well as demonstrating the wide range of instigators that create inequalities of wealth, such as political/policy decisions, loopholes in aid assistance, cost of education and unequal access to resources. In 2001 the Millennium development goals were set out in response to the millennium summit of the united nations to reduce poverty and its associated issues, of the eight goals, the first goal was to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, demonstrating the comprehension of the wide ranging affect of poverty on children and society as a whole, and an understanding that poverty ‘Damages children in every way’ as stated by Unicef
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...growing awareness of the outside world. The children at Bisaasi-teri, including those in Kaobawa village, regularly attend school at the mission and follow an academic year like that found all over Venezuela. They even have the equivalent of a “school bus” system- a very large dugout canoe that goes to each of the 12 “villages” every morning to pick the school children up and returns them the same way in the afternoon (Chagnon 258).” Introducing a school system to a hunter a gatherer society must have been extremely hard. By introducing this concept, the Yanomamo may experience a better organized society. This is amazing, before these changes children would only play the whole day. This is a great way to make the whole community understand that there are better ways to spend your time.
Education is considered key in most careers. George Washington Carver once said, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” This is not the case for all families. Some do not care about school at all and others take it very seriously. This all depends on the caste system. Some people do not have the choice to go to school and others that do take it for
In this cross-cultural mix, there will be cultural difficulties encountered by different members in these groups. For example, a young lady from Nigeria found it a little difficult to acculturate in Grenada because of the communication barrier that exist. She found it very difficult to gather information from her lecturers because of the manner in which they speak and pronounce their words.
Dr. Ray’s nationwide research indicates that more than 90% percent of the parents do not hold valid, government approved teaching certificates (2009). Whereas, all teachers, both public and private, have those certificates, and are taught, trained and certified to teach each certain aged students (“Home Schooling” 2011). Since the quality of education neither monitored nor regulated by the government, it is doubtful to trust the quality of education that parents provide to their children (“Home Schooling”, 2011). Teachers and administrators firmly control the quality of education they provide to students. They are concerned not only with the academics, but also with the engagement of the students in extracurricular activities at the school. Therefore classroom education is able to provide socialization, which is an important aspect of youth
Religion played a very crucial part in education both in the conduct of the institutions and in the curriculum. Bible reading and prayer remained a major part of school well into the national period, when control of education was drifting away from sectarian authorities. A debate was brought to local school boards by modern American delegate authorities, so the government allowed private individuals and residues groups to establish schools of their own. This happened because the government failed to support schools with tax revenues. Because of the governments failure numerous religious sects demanded the freedom to educate their children in their own way.
In conclusion, the impact of the mentioned problems can be reduced by raising wariness and educating people. Ordinary people are one of the elements in the solution of these people as they can as they can affect the success of any solution. In addition, encouraging the public to help each other in tacking these problems would lead to a fraternal and cooperative society. There is a national concern toward these problems. Therefore, tackling the roots of these issues should be on the government’s priorities.
With the global economy relying more than ever on brainpower and innovation rather than raw materials and manual labour as generators of wealth, a good education has become the key factor determining who will succeed and who will be left behind.
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