MALAYSIAN WORLDVIEWS

By RHODA HABTEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Worldviews

• Agricultural Age Worldviews: collectivist, group identity with people being part of social networks and relationships; Eastern and traditional civiliza-tions

• Industrial Age Worldviews: newtonian physics: divided reality up into separate parts and analyze each part seperately; individual idendity; deductive, win-lose, either-of dualistoc thinking; Western civilizations.

• Information Age Worldviews: new physics: dynamic, interdependent, whole systems worldwiew, unity and diversity whithin systems and on glaobal-local levels; win-win, both and thinking; synergy of Eastern and Western civilization, aand of individual and group nedds being met; compex sysyems required diversity of interdependent parts

Information/Data on Malaysian Worldviews: Malaysia seems to adapt the information or the industrial age faster more than many countries. They have aa very strong unity and diversity within their country and are working hard to join the competitive global economy and technology

Conclusions on Malaysian (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Worldviews) : Malaysia is in industrial and information age. They seem to be in good position in terms of their technology and economy. They are also in a take off stage of industrialsation and service sectors. Inorder for Malaysia to continue growing, they have included in their work force a training programes

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