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 ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses 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 postcolonial 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 know about the ethnic relations because in Malaysia, we have many cultures and races, so that we have to know each other to live in peace and harmony. That's why the prime minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak have create 1Malaysia, so that we will live in peace and harmony.

Why Ethnic Relations important?

Ethnic relations is important to Malaysians because we have to live in peace and harmony in our country that have many race and culture, so that no warrior between the Malaysians.