MULTIRACIAL MAKES MALAYSIA FAMOUS WITH ITS CULTURE
Malaysia is a multi—ethnic, multicultural and multilingual society. The Malays form the largest community and play a dominant role politically. Their language, Malay (Bahasa Malaysia), is the national language of the country.Citizens of Minangkabau, Bugis or Javanese origins, who can be classified "Malay" under constitutional definitions may also speak their respective ancestral tongues.
There is a large Chinese population who have historically been dominant in the Malaysian business and commerce community. There also exists a large mainly Tamil Indian population. They originally migrated from India as traders, teachers or other skilled workers, sometimes forced to by the British during colonial times to work in the plantation industry.
Malaysia has many other non—malay indigenous people, the largest of which is the Iban of Sarawak, who number over 600,000 and who still live in traditional longhouses which can hold up to 200 people. The Bidayuhs, numbering around 170,000, are concentrated in the southwestern part of Sarawak. The largest indigenous tribe in Sabah is the Kadazab, most of whom are Christians and rice farmers.]The 140,000 Orang Asli, or aboriginal peoples, comprise a number of different ethnic communities living in peninsular Malaysia. Many tribes, both on the peninsula and in Borneo, were traditionally nomadic or semi-nomadic hunter—gatherers, including the Punan, Penan and Senoi. However, their ancestral land and hunting grounds are commonly reclaimed by the state, shifting them to inferior land and sometimes pushing them out of their traditional way of life
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