The term multiculturalism captures the immense popularity over the last ten years, and it has several meanings and definitions. It is a situation in which all the cultures and racial groups have equal rights and opportunities, or it refers to equal respect to all cultures and people in a society. This paper is exploring multiculturalism from the perspective of ethnicity culture and caste. How these three countries had different culturalism (Australia, Canada, and India). In my point of view, multiculturalism is the best way to ensure diversity.
In India, there are 23 major languages so if you go even 200 miles in any direction it makes a difference. Different people have different ascent. Sometimes it is hard to understand each other but also there is one official language Hindi. But it is very important to preserve all languages because it helps to preserve the history of our culture and tradition. But nowadays less speaking language is going to disappear. In general, multiculturalism is a word that describes a society where people from different religions and cultures live together, and they all have equal rights and opportunities, and nobody is regarded as umimportant. All three countries have different religions, cultures and have different sizes of populations.
There are many immigrants as compare to the other countries in Australia and English is used by everyone as a common language whereas not all the people have this their first language. (Ghosh 24) Next, we can take an example of India; 1.21 billion people are living there but they all do not belong to the same religion and there are several religions such as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Christian and they all have their different languages. In India, only English and Hindi is considered as a national language. (Ghosh 24) In Canada, three minority groups are famous, and they are South Asians, Chinese and black people. Canadians have English as their mother tongue, but many people have French, Hindi or any else language as their first language. (24)
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Sometimes scientists did very good research which is very useful to spread all over the world. But sometimes because of different languages, people are unable to express their feeling which they want to do, but when people have one common language, so it helps to spread their information all over the world. This is the general discussion of Malaysian multiculturalism by focusing on the development of higher education. We will discuss the various stages in the development of higher education from past to present time.
Malaysia is in Southeast Asia a total population of 26 million which are Malays, Chinese, Indians and they all have different religions and cultures. (Ibrahim et al.1004). The official language of Malaysia is Malay language other languages such as English, Chinese, Punjabi, Tamil are also spoken over there. Their official religion is Islam and this religion is exercised by only 60% of the total population and the people of other religious practices Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism and other religions and the major changes in the British Era came in the form of foreign workers to make the economic sector developed. (1004) A huge number of immigrants came in from China and India.
The Chinese people worked in the mining sector and Indians worked in rubber estates and the native people of Malaysia were farmers and fishermen. Malaysian society was compromised by three major minority groups in which Malaysians were almost 50% and the Chinese were 37% and Indians were 11%. So different types of schools were opened for these ethnic groups. (1005) All the schools have different goals regarding providing education. The British Education system aimed to provide education in their language to prepare them for the future.
On the other hand, Malays opened schools to just provide basic education to the rural areas and the main aim of Chinese to provide education was to maintain ties with their country. (1005) This education system was built between 1786 and 1957. In the years before independence, there was a wide gap in education and income distribution that can be associated with different geographical locations and ethnic groups between the Malays and the non-Malays. (1005)
