Better English: WHAT IS IT TO BE A TRULY MALAYSIAN

Introduction

Now, Malaysia has achieved the 55^th Independence ceremony. The freedom of Malaysia is not quite the same as different nations. It was a smooth independence complete by holding talks with the British. On 31 August 1957, United Kingdom gives independence to Malaysia. Independence Day means a day to celebrate the dignity and freedom of being a Malaysia.

Multi-Racial Culture

I am proud to be Malaysian is because there are multi-racial culture. Malaysian is a multi-racial country. There are few types of race and religion in Malaysia. For instance, Malay, Chinese, Indian, Sikh and numerous indigenous people. Growing in a multi-racial culture society has taught me to respect people from different race and religion. I was also taught to appreciate and love my country, Malaysia. Moreover, Malaysia is a unique country because all of the race has a different costume. When it comes to festive season Malaysian society will unite and celebrate the festive. Example of traditional costume in Malaysia are baju melayu, cheongsam, saree, punjabi, baju burung, baju panjang and so on. (SHAARMENI KALIMUTHU)

Purchase Malaysian Product

As a Malaysian, we should advocate the Buy Malaysian Products Campaign to stimulate the economic growth of the country while facing the global economy recession. Indeed, we should purchase the Malaysian products as the reduction in the cost of the product. This is because the overall of production would be reduced and indirectly reduced the price of the products as the special packaging of the products are not required for the transportation from one place to another place. Moreover, we could display our supportive to the local business by purchasing local products. Hence, this gesture would lead to more profit for the local business and create the jobs opportunity for the Malaysia citizen (Benefit of .net, 2016). (LIM MIUN CHEN)

Patriotic

A people who live in a country, must has patriotic spirit and everyone has a different ways to show that. As a Malaysia people, we also have patriotic spirit. For example, when we travel to other countries, we can share about Malaysian culture, foods and the place to the local people. So there will more people know about Malaysia and they also will travel to our country. The culture in Malaysia is different with other countries, foods are delicious and the places are very nice. Those who travel to Malaysia, they said that this country is very good.(KHOR QIAO ROU)

Language Ability

What actually makes us as a truly Malaysian is our language ability. Being a Malaysian, I can be very proud to say that the average of us speaks at least two languages. The national language of Malaysia is Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and English is the second language. Mandarin and Tamil are commonly used by Chinese and Indian respectively. There also have some spoken language (dialect) in Chinese and Indian community like Hakka and Telugu. In this way, Malaysian already beat out other nations like Korea and Japan where only limited to one language. This will increase the ability of Malaysian to survive and connect to the world with no communication problem. (OH YI ZHI)

Conclusion

In conclusion, we should be proud to be part of Malaysian citizen because we have beautiful community and civilization, can produce intelligent athletes. Hence, we must do the work together and citizen in Malaysia should make Malaysia proud.