It seeks to expand the existing body of knowledge by investigating these differences from the perspective of young consumers in an Eastern context. It can be argued that the Javanese descendant’s communities in Malaysia are too complex to define in terms of identity and self-images. A local genre has been created: the young artists are keen to emphasise both their Malaysian and Chinese identities in their music, and the songs demonstrate that these two are not contradictory or binary but two aspects of the identity of these artists and their large audience.
However, in some aspects of life, particularly traditional healthcare practices, this community still retains the ways and images of being Javanese while at the same time keeping the Malay image intact.
Malaysian Javanese communities that constitute Malay society are exposed to the Malay identity discourses through various channels including television. Presumably, the identity and culture of the Javanese in Malaysia have been influenced by the social and cultural milieu of others' through the process of " cultural localisation " (... " Realistically, the Javanese have no problem with accepting " Malayness " as their lives as Javanese and Muslims do not contradict the Malay way of life and they could easily assimilate into the Malay culture. 1981 The Dialectics of Ethnic Change. The magnitude of the increase was surprising, but followed similar surges in national naming in the Canadian and Australian censuses. 28 Kalela Dance) $leftrightarrow$ Undercommunication of Group Membership (actors tried to play ethnicity down and don't try to make it an important aspect of the definition of a situation) Stereotyping: refers to the creation and consistent application of standardized notions on the cultural distinctiveness of a group $rightarrow$ they often (but not always!) The latest of such issues is the misunderstanding of the attempt by the Ministry of Information, Communications and Cultural Heritage of Malaysia to record the origins of North Sumatra's traditional Tortor dance and musical instrument, Gondang Sambilan (nine drums) under Section 67 of the National Heritage Act 2005 (The Jakarta Post, 2012). Ratnam, K. J. 3-30.
the predictor variable, the contempt, and defense of ingroup historical narratives
willingness to forgive outgroups is investigated –for Turks as ethnic majority group and Armenians and Kurds as the minority groups. At the same time a pan-Malay consciousness was competitively articulated for the first time between the non-Malay Muslim and Malay Muslim intelligentsia. The discussion in this paper demonstrates how multiculturalism in Malaysia has undergone a long process of negotiation between the various ethnic groups represented by their respective political parties. For example, Indonesian authorities accused Malaysia of "stealing" Indonesian cultural products. 89/90/91/92) $rightarrow$ important note with this example = European identity is not necessarily incompatible with national or ethnic identities! 287-319. 2 The Malays were the indigenous people but the British colonial government recruited a large workforce from India and China, which transformed the character of the Malay states to a plural society ... Ong's work has been taken up widely to address questions of gender, ethnicity, national identity, and citizenship in Asian contexts ... Mass media should provide representation of North Sinai Bedouins and incorporate good exemplars in TV programs and drama. (1997... Mandarin serves as the only written form of communication for the educated Chinese. 1965 Communalism and Political Process in Malaya. The debates of Malay identity construction can be understood within two contexts: 'authority-defined' and 'everyday-defined' social realities (Shamsul, 1996). $rightarrow$ for ethnic membership to have a personal importance, it must provide the individual with something he or she considers valuabe $rightarrow$ however: sometimes ethnic identities are imposed from the outside by dominant groups General problem of criteria for what is and what is not ethnicity: where should we draw the boundary between ethnic groups and other groups, such as social classes? Particular attention is given to the issues and cases from the education system which are examined in the light of post-colonialism and the globalisation era. (criticism= multicultural ideology virtually forces people to take on an ethnic identity, even if they would have preferred not to have this aspect of their personal identity highlighted) $leftrightarrow$ Product of culture and society?