The word ‘MALAYSIA’ automatically remains us that a country with multi-ethnic society. Multi-ethnic society means what? It is made up with different ethnic background people. Why it referring to Malaysia? This is because in Malaysia people with different ethnic and various races were living together in peaceful manner. One of the major point tourist were attract strongly to visit Malaysia is because of this multi-ethnic society. This multi-ethnic society brings up their multicultural and their characteristics which were very different from other country when we compare.
The major races in Malaysia that bring multiethnic society are Malays, Indians and Chinese. A tourist who visit Malaysia was wrote in News Straight Times about his wonderful experiences by visiting Malaysia. He is James Campbell is a Lecturer in Faculty Arts/ Education School of Education Deakin University Australia. He made a research on Malaysia by visiting Malaysia. Mr. James says that Malaysia is truly the world is because Malaysia has a multicultural characteristic that shows many of the world’s major civilizations.
Secondly in regards to tourism Malaysia attracts tourists from all over the world partly because of this multicultural aspect. Basically the complexity of types of tourists is partly related to the complexity of Malaysia. So people come from the Middle East, from China from India and so on partly because Malaysia is a country they feel comfortable in and due to Malaysia’s complex multicultural and multi-faith fabric. Malaysians were following different believes that also followed by other country people for example in India, China, Arabic and some more.
It can project itself to the world as a friendly and warm destination. So Malaysia’s worldliness which is another way of saying its multicultural multi-faith characteristics is a plus for tourism and conversely tourism is a plus for Malaysia. Therefore Malaysia is attract full country by others especially by tourist. This is because in Malaysia tourists were treated well by Malaysian, the food that they having here making them very comfortable and the different races with different believes is giving them a new experience and new knowledge. This makes Malaysia truly the world.
The largest ethnic group in Malaysia are Malays, Chinese, and Indians. They were different races where living in one country tolerantly among them. When a different ethnic group form there will be different believes, traditional foods, moral values that they follow and some more. In Malaysia religious believes that Malaysian following were same as the other country religion’s believes. So when tourists visit Malaysia from other country they can go to their religious places. For example tourist from India can go to temple, from China can go to tokong cina, from Arabic to masjid, Christian to church and furthermore.
This kindly shows that when tourist visiting Malaysia they can earn what they need for them . Malaysia is well known as The food that served here is variety of food with different taste and different traditional. The Chinese serve their food such as soup, curry mee, vegetarian dishes and more. When western people taste such food they fell differently compare to their country. The white people love to eat Indian food because of the spices. They won’t get such spices in their country. What is the special of this spices food for them?
It is very tasty and they found that it good for their health. The writer also mentions that his favourite restaurant is an Indian curry restaurant whenever he visits Penang. It shows that how the spices and taste of a food can attract people to visit Malaysia. The popular food among Malays is nasi lemak and satey . Malay are the largest group so the tourist most focus on their tradition more. The Malay food can get anywhere in any time in Malaysia. Even at road side also we can get the food. So it makes tourist get their food as fast as they can whenever they hungry.
Therefore Malaysia is more comfortable to the tourist which always can provide their needs as fast as possible. They also can experience the unique of the food culture. Malaysians are very unity with different races. They can tolerate among each other. There were no religious problems, moral problems, understanding sense is more among the Malaysians. This is because people respect and follow the Prime Minister’s words that unity is our nation by launching 1MALAYSIA. The concept of this slogan is although Malaysia is filled with different races we all are one Malaysia people.
