Bangsa, menurut Wikipedia Ensiklopedia Bebas mempunyai dua maksud utama iaitu jenis manusia dari satu asal keturunan (contoh : bangsa Melayu) dan kumpulan manusia dalam satu ikatan ketatanegaraan, contohnya bangsa Malaysia dan bangsa Roma. John Stuart Mill mendefinisikan bangsa sebagai rumpun manusia yang terikat oleh rasa taksub bersama dan lebih rela bekerjasama sesama mereka, berbanding dengan rumpun bangsa yang lain. Lazimnya, rumpun tersebut terjalin menerusi kesamaan bahasa, kesatuan wilayah, budaya, sejarah dan agama.
Kaum pula, mengikut Kamus Pelajar Bahasa Malaysia, Cetakan Kesembilan 1993, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) membawa maksud golongan orang sebagai sebahagian daripada satu bangsa yang besar; suku bangsa. Kaum juga boleh ditakrifkan sebagai perkataan lain bagi bangsa. Malaysia misalnya mempunyai penduduk yang terdiri daripada pelbagai kaum seperti Melayu, Cina, India dan Baba dan Nyonya di mana kaum-kaum tersebut berbeza dari segi pakaian (Melayu: Kurung, Baju Melayu, pelikat; Cina: Cheongsam, Sam Fu; India: sari, serban, kurta, dhorti), makanan, perayaan, tarian, kepercayaan, bahasa, alat muzik, dan juga permainan.
Daripada sumber Wikipedia Ensiklopedia Bebas, kelompok etnik dilabelkan sebagai kelompok manusia yang anggotanya mengaitkan diri melalui sesuatu warisan sepunya, baik warisan yang benar mahupun yang dianggap. Kelompok diri sesuatu etnik berbeza daripada kelompok yang lain dari sudut budaya, bahasa, agama, dan tingkah laku yang mana akhirnya membentuk identiti etnik tersebut. Etnik juga didefinisikan sebagai sekelompok manusia yang mengamalkan budaya yang hampir seragam, dari segi adat resam, pakaian, bahasa, kegiatan ekonomi dan sebagainya. (A Zamri Mansor – Hubungan Etnik).
Mohd Koharuddin Mohd Balwi (2005), dalam bukunya yang berjudul Latar Belakang Budaya dan Peradaban Melayu menyatakan konsep ras digunakan oleh ahli antropologi yang merujuk kepada enam kelompok manusia terbesar dunia, termasuklah Causcasoid(Kulit Putih), Negroid (Kulit Hitam), Mongoloid (Kulit Kuning), Australoid (Penduduk asal Australia dan New Guinea), Red Indian (Kulit Merah; asalnya dari benua Asia atau Alam Melayu) dan Melayu-Polinesia (Kulit Ciku Masak; sawo matang). Enam kelompok tersebut adalah berdasarkan perbezaan ciri fizikal, iaitu warna kulit, bentuk muka, hidung, rambut, genetik, linguistik dan budaya.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
fuhh..this is the sooner I have a spare to write in. It have been two weeks passed. Though, so many things comes and goes around me - just like how everyone have.
Tonight in this dark, lights off room, and everyone is sleeping soundly, except me of course (wink), feels like I'm at somewhere else. Although it has been 1 month since I get back here, I keeps feeling empty. Going to class daily, learning the new like how to compensate employees, laws applied to them, drafting strategics for business, ethics and so on, suppose I feel blast. I'm now trying hardly to figure out what actually stay in and out of my mind. Sometimes I feel like missing something really precious for me, accurately saying it is 'someone', sometimes like I have totally lose my own self. Or maybe I long for a family.
Yesterday one of my friends has leave for hostels, it is sad but I believe that is better, I means for her own goods. I know I don't have the right to interfere in others life matters, but as a friend, I feel responsible to care at least when there is something that I can help then I should give a hand.
People always say that every single things that we face in every moments we leave as the spices of life, which make us a grateful men on earth. Therefore I'll do my best in striking my goals, mission and vision so that everybody that count on me can live happily ever after.
p/s: peace, no war. ^_^
Tonight in this dark, lights off room, and everyone is sleeping soundly, except me of course (wink), feels like I'm at somewhere else. Although it has been 1 month since I get back here, I keeps feeling empty. Going to class daily, learning the new like how to compensate employees, laws applied to them, drafting strategics for business, ethics and so on, suppose I feel blast. I'm now trying hardly to figure out what actually stay in and out of my mind. Sometimes I feel like missing something really precious for me, accurately saying it is 'someone', sometimes like I have totally lose my own self. Or maybe I long for a family.
Yesterday one of my friends has leave for hostels, it is sad but I believe that is better, I means for her own goods. I know I don't have the right to interfere in others life matters, but as a friend, I feel responsible to care at least when there is something that I can help then I should give a hand.
People always say that every single things that we face in every moments we leave as the spices of life, which make us a grateful men on earth. Therefore I'll do my best in striking my goals, mission and vision so that everybody that count on me can live happily ever after.
p/s: peace, no war. ^_^
Friday, July 16, 2010
welcome lotus...
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.
Alhamdulillah, finally I gain the strength to create a post. Actually I am not a kind of person that loves to read or write unless if I have a specific purpose, as for this one is just to give a try to something new. From now on I'll write anything and everything I feel like I want to, though one's might find it annoying or disturbing or encouraging maybe, my advice is just do what u think is right and of course everyone has the right to choose whether to agree or to argue. ooooopsss, got to go, come again tomorrow or soon. =)
Alhamdulillah, finally I gain the strength to create a post. Actually I am not a kind of person that loves to read or write unless if I have a specific purpose, as for this one is just to give a try to something new. From now on I'll write anything and everything I feel like I want to, though one's might find it annoying or disturbing or encouraging maybe, my advice is just do what u think is right and of course everyone has the right to choose whether to agree or to argue. ooooopsss, got to go, come again tomorrow or soon. =)
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