FORUM

The activity for this week(7th week) is to do a Forum in the class. Each group have to specialise in their own topic regarding to the topic on the short sketch presentation. The representative from each group will be the panel in the forum. Then the remaining group members will be the audience asking the panels questions. Some panels had the difficulties in answering because the question given was confusing and unclear. Some questions had statement error. Without doubt, the panels had to make clear the question. Answers from some of the panels were satisfying. Overall response from the audience are good.

For my group, I(Ivan) was the representative as one of the panel who answered the questions.

Some pictures from the activity.

Short Sketch Presentation

5th week, that is our short sketch presentation. We are the no.7 group to be presented infront the class.
The limit of our sketch is 10 minutes only. We have 3 parts that must be presented in time. Few days before our presentation,
we held a meeting to discuss what we have to do during the sketch and what role we will be acting. Everyone of us were present during the meeting.

Unfortunately, at the presentation day, Syawal have an urgent scholarship interview. So we have to play his role and lucky enough,
everything went well. Our sketch presentation ended up with successful.

Part 1 - The Japanese Occupation
During the Japanese occupation in Malay Ground, many civilian had died due to the killings from the Japanese Soldiers.
Then, the Sultan found out that these matters is too much and he gathered all the men from different races to unite n stay together.
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered and finally, the civilian is no longer in treat from the Japanese and their happy life returns again.

Part 2 - The Communist Intermission
When Malaya was declared in Emergency state, the Malayan Communist Party started a riot and killed innocent people.
Then, the British imperial commissioner ask all civilian to gather and unite so that they can protect themselves from being harmed.
After 14 days, British overpowered the communist. The communist then surrendered to the British army and some ran away to Thailand.










Part 3 - The Malayan Union
British planned Malayan Union in Malaya in 1960. British asked the Sultans to sign the letter of agreement.
Some ministers did not agree with the plan, they sent the letters to the Great Britain which ends up being ignored.
Dato' Onn Jaffar, strongly disagree with the plan as malay rights in the country is no longer in control and
he asked the Sultans to object the plan. He then asked the malay civilians to object together with him and made a protest.

Finally, after British got pressured from the civilians, they dissolute the Malayan Union plan. Then, UMNO is formed with the unity of the citizens.












The main point in our presentation is unity. With unity, we can have a peaceful and happy life.

Comic Drawing

On the 4th week, En.Ahmad gave us a task which I think it is unique among the other lecturers. The task is very simple, that is comic drawing. He gave us 3 papers with different titles on it and we were asked to draw the comics with our own creativity. The purpose of this comic drawing is not just for fun, En. Ahmad wants us to relate the concept of ethnic relations so that we can learn while we are having fun at same time. The comics, of course, we will need to make a short sketch presentation at the following weeks.

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Comic 1 - The Japanese Occupation

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Comic 2 - The Communist Intermission

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Comic 3 - The Malayan Union

The meaning of the comic will be discussed in upcoming post, Short Sketch Presentation.

Comic with own dialog

The third week of Ethnic Relations class activity is to write a dialog from the given comic. Our lecturer Mr. Ahmad gave us 2 papers of comic without the dialog and asked us to fill it up with our own dialog depending on our own creativity, but with the condition that the dialog must be related to ethnic relations.

There are 4 parts of comic. For the first part, our group decided to write a dialog regarded with the “Racism”. Racism is the belief that the genetic factors of the constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produces an inherent superiority of a particular race. Second comic is describing about “Discrimination”. Discrimination means a treatment taken towards or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on category.

The third comic is mentioning about “Prejudice”, where a judgment is made without recourse to reason. Then, the forth comic is about “Segregation”, which means the separation of different kinds of life.

Unfortunately, our group doesn’t bring the colour pencils, so we can’t colour it well. But, we had tried our best to colour it by our blue pen, red pen and highlighter. We hope you will not mind with it.

From : CSW EA08098

12 basic concept of Ethnic Relation

The second week activity during our Ethnic class is to play a crossword puzzle. My partner is Lam Kheng Yik which comes from other group (http://wonderful-sharing.blogspot.com/). The crossword puzzle activity is wanted us to find out 12 concept of ethnic relation which hide inside it. We can’t found out all of the concept in the period given. But we still feel very happy because we have learns many new words from the game.

And now I am going to share with you all about the 12 basic concept of Ethnic relation.

1. Assimilation - The process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs.
2. Nation - A nation is a group of people who share culture, ethnic origin and language, often possessing or seeking its own independent government.
3. Pluralism - When small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities.
4. Centrism - The ideal or the practice of promoting moderate policies that lie between different political extremes.
5. Discrimination - A sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category.
6. Accommodation - A dwelling or place of temporary residence.
7. Racism - Is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
8. Stereotype - A commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals.
9. Prejudice - Judgment made without recourse to reason.
10. Acculturation - The exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact.
11. Enculturation - The process by which a person learns the requirements of the culture by which he or she is surrounded.
12. Segregation - Separation of different kinds of living things.

From : CSW EA08098