DEMOGRAPHY(Ethnicity and Ancestries)

INTRODUCTION

ETHNIC

Malaysia,a multiracial country is well known by the world population as it have various type of ethnics that makes up about half of the total population in Malaysia.There are two group of citizens in Malaysia, the Bumiputera such as the Malay or usually known as the Muslims(the largest ethnic in Malaysia)and Non-Bumiputeras.The second largest ethnic in Malaysia is the Chinese then followed by the Indians.Twenty largest ethnolinguistic group in Malaysia are the Malays(Peninsular,Han Chinese Hokkien,Tamil,Han Chinese Hakka,Han Chinese Cantonese,Malays(Banjar),Han Chinese Teochow,Han Chinese Mandarin,Minangkabau,Indonesian,Iban
Filipino,Han Chinese Hainanese,Han Chinese Min Bei,Malays(East Malaysia),Han Chinese Min Dong,Straits Chinese,Nepalese,Tausug and the Dusun(central).Unlike other neighbour country such as indonesia,Thailand and the phillipines,most Malaysian Chinese and Indian do not want to assimilate or intergrate into Bumiputra society in Malaysia.

ANCESTRIES

Malaysian Malays are mixd people of various ancentries.Many have different ancentris from all over the world.Examples,Achenese(population about 20,000-1000,000),Arab(500,000-1000,000),Benjavese(200,000-1000,000),Bugis(1,284,000-7,500,00)Chinese(217,100-500,000),Indians(200,000-1,000,000)Javanese(1,283,964-3,000,000) and Minangkabau(300,000-1,000,000).All the information above prove that Malaysia is different and special compare to other countries in the world and we as the Malaysian should be proud of our country.We Malaysian should live in peace and intergrity to make Malaysia a better country to live in.