2. Content
Introduction
Brief history of Malaysia
DEMOGRAPHICS
ETHNIC GROUPS
Culture diversity
the integration and assimilation
3. Introduction history of
Malaysia
POPULATION COMPRISES ETHNIC GROUPS.
137 LIVING LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN
ISLAM IS THE OFFICIAL RELIGION.
HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM EXITS.
EARLIER IT WAS KNOWN AS MALAY KINGDOM.
4. Brief history
Cultures have always been meeting and mixing
types in Malaysia since the very starting of its
history. And around more than fifteen hundred
years ago, A Malay kingdom in the Bujang Valley
did welcome the traders from India and China.
And with the arrival of silks and gold, Hinduism and
Buddhism also came into Malaysia. And around
thousands of years later, the Arab traders arrived
in the city of Malacca and brought with them the
ideologies and the practices of the religion Islam.
And by that time the Portuguese came in
Malaysia, their empire which they had
encountered was much more than the
cosmopolitan.
5. Ethnic group
Thepopulation of Malaysia consists of
three main ethnic groups—Malays,
Chinese, and peoples of the South Asian
subcontinent. Malays and other
indigenous groups are known as
Bumiputras ("sons of the soil").
6. DEMOGRAPHICS
ETHNIC GROUPS
Malays and other
indigenous groups
(Bumiputras)
10%
Chinese
8%
persons of Indian
24% 58% descent
Other
8. language
The national language is Bahasa Malaysia
the other languages spoken by different
ethnic groups
School language
Business language
9. Food
the food too is a fantastically varied blend of
Chinese, Indian, European and other
influences
10. Holidays and Ceremonial
traditions
Malaysia has one of the highest numbers of
public holidays in the world
it’s not one culture, but many-
Malay, Chinese, Indian, hints of a bygone
colonial age
