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On malaysia's ethnic tolerance: A study of two cities

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dc.contributor.affiliationsCentre of Core Studies
dc.contributor.affiliationsUniversiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
dc.contributor.authorMohd Nizah M.A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T08:39:03Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T08:39:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractAs emerging modernized nation, Malaysia political and social stability has become crucial elements in ensuring the national inspiration of developed nation by the year 2020 is achievable. The good atmosphere of its multiethnic relations is one of the essential key elements in maintaining its social unity and stability. Thus, inter-ethnic tolerance attitude must be one of the factors that contribute to the good atmosphere of multi-ethnic relations. Therefore, ascertaining the value of inter-ethnic tolerance is a must. In doing so, this study paper aimed to determine the level of tolerance among various ethnic groups in two different geographical areas. This study also seeks to understand the relationship between tolerance attitude and urbanization. This comparative study involved 451 respondents in selected urban and non-urban area. A quantitative approach using a set of self-administered questionnaires distributed with simple random technique is applied. Data then analysed descriptively using percentage and mean. Result shown that due to certain factors, the level of inter-ethnic tolerance in the developed and developing areas were different in certain degree. The findings thus reaffirm previous literature on urbanization and its effect. Suggestions are discussed. � Medwell Journals, 2015.en_US
dc.description.natureFinalen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3923/rjasci.2015.294.297
dc.identifier.epage297
dc.identifier.issn1815932X
dc.identifier.issue8
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84971571376
dc.identifier.spage294
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84971571376&doi=10.3923%2frjasci.2015.294.297&partnerID=40&md5=202fec161c129e6881e13b2c03c1266a
dc.identifier.urihttps://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/9231
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMedwell Journalsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofResearch Journal of Applied Sciencesen_US
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectEthnic relationsen_US
dc.subjectMulti-ethnicen_US
dc.subjectNational unityen_US
dc.subjectToleranceen_US
dc.subjectUrbanizationen_US
dc.titleOn malaysia's ethnic tolerance: A study of two citiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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