Superdiversity Society: Challenges in Empowering Social Cohesion in Malaysian Society

Malaysia is today a superdiversity society with a wide range of languages, cultures, faiths, and customs. As a result, the Malaysian community has a struggle to strengthen the social cohesiveness that has been accomplished thus far. Managing a superdiversity society is difficult since it necessitates a range of ways and strategies in order for society to embrace and create cooperative connections. The government makes various attempts to monitor community relations in order to avoid disputes and tensions. Politics and education go hand in hand. To overcome these difficulties and sustain social cohesion, all parties must take a strategic approach and work together. Social cohesiveness is an important component of a society that maintains peace and harmony. Most countries in a plural society encounter conflict as a result of disparities in background, leading to war, discrimination, oppression, and so on. The sought unity is frequently the term of Malaysian society, particularly the country's leaders, the final aim that must go through the process of social cohesiveness that has existed in today's society. This is qualitative research, and the library technique was used to gather the data. The collected data is then analysed using content analysis techniques. The aim of this research is to identify the obstacles to enhancing social cohesiveness within Malaysia's superdiversity community. The difficulties encountered by Malaysia's superdiversity society are examined from the perspectives of ethnicity, religion, culture, socioeconomic status, politics, and education. The findings found challenges in strengthening superdiversity societies covering ethnic, religious, cultural, socioeconomic, political and educational aspects. A thoughtful approach and cooperation from all parties is needed to meet these challenges and maintain social cohesion.