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Question

The plurality of Malaysia is merely caused by British colonization, argue this statement by using suitable example

Answer 1

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The British Presence in the Malay World: A Meeting of
Civilizational Traditions
CAROLINA LÓPEZ C.
ABSTRAK
This article examines points of convergence and divergence in values, assumptions and interpretations underlying historical encounters between the British and the Melayu traditions in colonial Malaya. It proposes that in addition to examining power relations between them, it is necessary to uncover the largely unconscious paradigmatic assumptions causing them to view and value the same phenomena in radically different ways. The basic proposition of the study is that the British colonizers and the Melayu brought different internalized filters within themselves to the critical junctures – or the actual encounters occurring between the two groups. These differences in interpretative mechanisms, held largely below the level of consciousness, constitute an often unexamined source of tension and misunderstanding among groups from diverse traditions. It is the author’s hope that attention given to convergence and divergence in underlying values and interpretative mechanisms may be of 4 Sari 19 use in resolving conflict between different traditions, which presently pose a grave challenge to the world today.

INTRODUCTION
Civil society in Malaysia consists of a complex mosaic of peoples having different cultural, religious and historical backgrounds. This diversity often leads to differences in interests, values, priorities and worldviews among the cultural communities comprising the national populace. Any attempt to analyze the dynamics of governance and civil society today should thus take into account the historical roots and the diverse worldviews found in Malaysia’s plural demographic make-up. This paper proposes to examine salient or critical junctures where actors from two of these civilizational traditions came into contact with each other during the time of British colonial rule in Malaya past. Specifically, it will focus on similarities and differences between the political systems and the worldviews of the Malay World (Dunia Melayu) and those brought to the region in the early nineteenth century by the British colonizers. For this purpose, the Ideological-Structural Analysis (I-SA) will be applied. I-SA is a set of theoretical constructs which invites analysts to go beyond the typical starting point for political analysis – the meeting of actors in the political arena – and probe into what the diverse actors bring to the critical juncture within themselves in terms of implicit understandings, modes of interpretation and culturally-bound systems for assessing and assigning values to given situations. Figure 1 provides a visual summary of the ensuing I-SA of the encounter between these two civilizational traditions.