The Meanings of Ethnic Relationship

What is the meaning of ethnic relationship?

Ethnic
-means connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people.

Relations
-The way people behave.

Ethnic relations

-The area of the discipline that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicity at all levels of society. This area consists of the study of racism, residential segregation, and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups. The sociological analysis of race and ethnicity frequently interacts with other areas of sociology such as stratification and social psychology, as well as with post-colonial theory.

At the level of political policy, ethnic relations is discussed in terms of either assimilationism or multiculturalism. Anti-racism forms another style of policy, particularly popular in the 1960s and 70s.

In Malaysia, we have to understand at every corner about the ethnic relations because in Malaysia, we lives with various cultures and races, so that we have to understand and tolerant with each other in order to live in peace and harmony. That's why the prime minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak had lunch 1Malaysia. The slogan of 1Malaysia is a way of him to administer this country and all of his political wills is aim to achieve justice in Malaysian people.

Why Ethnic Relations important?

Ethnic relations is important to Malaysians because we deal with various people from different background of culture, race and belief. To live in harmonic and peaceful, every people must understand and have a steady grab of ethnic relation so then we understand each other and find a point of unity and tolerance.