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    Culture Briefing: Malaysia - Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs
    Culture Briefing: Malaysia - Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs
    Culture Briefing: Malaysia - Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs
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    Culture Briefing: Malaysia - Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs

    By Bob Martin

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    Culture Briefing: Malaysia provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the Malaysian people. Whether visiting Malaysia, working on a class paper or doing business with the Malaysians, you'll find Culture Briefing: Malaysia an invaluable resource. If you're traveling to the country, supplement your travel guide with Culture Briefing: Malaysia. It will let you enrich your trip, giving you knowledge about Malaysian etiquette and traditions — and more financial success when traveling on business. You'll also receive the information you need to help you feel comfortable in what might otherwise be a strange environment, including a list of do's and don'ts. You'll gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with the Malaysians, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave. No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when in conversation with the Malaysian people because you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew nothing of their form of government. With Culture Briefing: Malaysia you'll discover the character, values, beliefs and customs of the Malaysians. You'll learn of their artistic endeavors and political ways. You'll find out about their home, family and religious life as well as how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. You'll also discover the problems the Malaysian people face and see how they handle them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Martin
    Release dateJul 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301642403
    Culture Briefing: Malaysia - Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs
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    Bob Martin

    Bob Martin, creator of the Culture Briefing series, has lived in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also written and edited college textbooks and training lessons for the travel industry, newsletters for travel consumers and travel articles for newspapers and magazines, including: Accent magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Buffalo News, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Off Duty magazine, The Orlando Sentinel and Travel-Holiday magazine. Currently he writes articles and e-books in the areas of travel, exploration and adventure.

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      Culture Briefing - Bob Martin

      Culture Briefing: Malaysia

      Your guide to Malaysian culture and customs

      by Bob Martin

      www.CultureBrifings.com

      Published by the Geotravel Research Center at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013-2015 Bob Martin

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This edition is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Fast Facts

      THE MALAYSIAN PEOPLE

      Customs and Ways

      Do's and Don'ts

      Conducting Business

      Subcultures

      Class Distinctions

      Language

      HOME AND FAMILY

      Marriage

      The Role of Women

      Funerals

      Names

      Health and Welfare

      Dress

      Food and Dining

      EDUCATING THE CHILDREN

      RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

      Malays

      Chinese

      Indian Hindus

      Indian Sikhs

      Indigenous People

      MAKING A LIVING

      Industry

      Problems of the Economic Boom

      PASSING LEISURE TIME

      Festivals

      Sports

      THE ARTS

      Literature

      Music

      Dance

      Painting

      POLITICAL WAYS

      Local Administration

      Parties

      HISTORY

      USEFUL INTERNET LINKS

      Malaysia News Sources

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      INTRODUCTION

      Malaysia is a diverse land with varied cultures, languages and religions. It blends modern, urbanized lifestyles and traditional, rural ways of life. It has a multiracial and multicultural society made up of Malays, Chinese, Indians and numerous indigenous peoples, all living today in a relatively harmonious ethnic environment.

      Geographically, the country is made up of two separate land masses — West Malaysia, or The Peninsula, and East Malaysia. The country has eleven states that occupy the southern-most third of the Malay Peninsula and are known as Peninsular Malaysia. Two states — Sarawak and Sabah — make up East Malaysia, which lies across the South China Sea on the island of Borneo. Although most of Borneo is Indonesian territory, Malaysian Sarawak and Sabah occupy the north and northwest portions of the island.

      Malaysia has a strategic location between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Its peninsular location halfway along the sea route between India and China early on brought it into frequent contact with foreign traders. Over the centuries, Chinese and Indian merchants settled in the area, bringing their cultures with them.

      Today, Malaysia has transformed itself from a nation dependent on exporting raw materials into a country with a multi-sector economy strong in manufacturing, services and tourism.

      In the transition, however, many old traditions have become lost, and the country’s rising economic tide has not lifted all boats. Some social scientists feel that the government has put an overemphasis on economic development at the expense of other aspects of society. Land and housing prices, for example, have shot up, putting homes out of the reach of poorer Malaysians, and wooden and aluminum-roofed squatter shacks have sprung up close to industrial zones.

      Others, however, point out that the country’s economic

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