What is it about to be a truly Malaysian? and Thai?

What is it all about to be a Malaysian?

Woan Shin

For me, the meaning of being a “Truly Malaysian” is always proud to be a Malaysian. In Malaysia, we have more than three races, language, and also many delicious food. As a Malaysian, I always feel that I’m so lucky to be live over here, because there have no any natural disasters like typhoon, earthquake in Malaysia, even though the economic in Malaysia is not that good, but I feel blessed if there is safe and sound together with family and friends. However, there have also some habits to prove that we are a truly Malaysian. For example, when across the road we can directly hold up our magical hand to stop the vehicle on the road without using footpaths. Not only that, when we heard the words, “Sales” or “Free”, as a Malaysian we will feel excited and crazy that queue up in the early morning before the shop open, when tourist from other country will feel shocked and keep asking what happen, that is what I experience before inside the mall. But so what, that’s us, a “Truly Malaysian”.

Ming Chun

One of the reason can be prove we are a truly Malaysians, that is our talking style. Our country always add up ‘merh’, ‘lah’. For example, when we don’t want to go that places, we will said ‘want go that place merh’. When we want to go that places. ‘We will said lets go there lah’. Some People will think that this is a broken english but for me is fine. This is a our country talking style and I feel that this is very friendly when talking to someone.

Xin Yee

Malaysia is a country consisting of Chinese, Malays and Indians. With different races, most of us able to speak more than two language and we do not have to pay for language learning classes. As a country with multiracial culture, our closest part is we speak in ‘Bahasa Rojak’, which is we can mix any language that we want into one sentence. Besides that, we always become a translator for our friend or even a stranger who do not speak a certain language. We always get a surprised looks from foreigners or travellers because most of them do not know that Malaysia are at least bi-lingual and we are proud of it!

Jun Shiang

Instead of being a truly Malaysian, I would rather say myself as a truly Penangite. Why? I lived in Penang since i was born. So what is it about to be a Penangites? In Penang we speak alot of languages, such as Hokkien, Cantonese dialect. In Penang we also surrounded by all the famous food like Char Koay Teow, Laksa who ranked top 2 food in the world, hokkien mee, curry mee and so on. Penang is a small island but surrounded with passionate people, friendly people and full of different cultural background. Penang demonstrate a very good role of democratic state which Malaysia always stress on, ''Be Democratic''. We lived in peace, harmony and of course, we keep on moving forward. I could say that Penang is the best place to be lived in. Altho Malaysia is my country, but I lived in Penang and I am proud of it!

What is it about to be a Thai?

Anuthat

In my opinion when talking about Thailand the first thing that comes to people’s mind is the unique greeting “Sawasdee” and another word is “Kob Khun ka/krub” which means thank you. The word sawasdee uses in anytime when Thai people meet each other. Another symbol of truly thai is nickname,Thai people usually use formal names only for official things such as driving license,identity card but in daily life they would call nickname instead and nicknames in Thai are quite weird and funny if translate to English such as Tangkwa which means cucumber in English or Nok means bird so these are the uniques of Thailand.

References:

1. Astro, 2014, “10 Ways You Know You’re Malaysian” [WWW][Available at http://www.astro.com.my/negaraku/ArticleDetails?articleId=2389&catId=92] [Accessed on: 19 November 2016]

2. World of Buzz, 2016, 9 things only us malaysian who are at elast bilingual will understand [WWW] Available at: http://www.worldofbuzz.com/9-things-only-us-malaysians-who-are-at-least-bilingual-will-understand/ [Accessed 19th November 2016] 

3. Courtney Stanley, 2016. The 15 Best cities In the World For Food, Culture Trip. [WWW] Available from: https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/the-15-best-cities-in-the-world-for-food/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=170116northamericafood  [Accessed 20th November 2016]

4. Financial Samurai. 2016, The Best Food in The World Is In Malaysia [WWW] Available from: http://www.financialsamurai.com/the-best-food-in-the-world-is-in-malaysia/ [Accessed 20th November 2016]