MALAYSIAN CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

By RHODA HABTEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Cultural Characteristics

• Agricultural Age Cultural Characteristics:local cultures (organized around rural communitites of city-states)

• Industrial Age Cultural Characteristics:national cultures (organized around the nation-state)

• Information Age Cultural Characteristics: Globalization of cultures (organized around an increasingly interdependent world), creating surface level global unity level along with deeper level local diversity of the world's cultures.

Information/Data on Malaysian Cultural Characteristics : Malaysia is a multicultural society, with Malays, chineses and Indians living together experiencing their own tribes yet sharing it with others. malaysia has a heavily influencd music by chinese and Islamic forms and they have a strong tradition of dance and dance drams

Conclusions on Malaysia (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Cultural Characteristics) Malaysians are recially diverse, and diverse ethnic groups. their culture is a mixture of agricultural and industrial age

Additional Online Sources on Canadian Cultural Characteristics

• Destinations: Malaysia

Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Malaysian Cultural Characteristics

• Culturegrams 1996