Report Survey Questions (Look East Policy)

REPORT
Survey Questions
(Look East Policy)

DATE
4 November 2010

LECTURER
Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim

1. Introduction

This report is one of the assignments for subject Ethnic Relations or Hubungan Etnik (UHM2022). This subject is designed to promote students unity and integration. This is achieved by involving students in field work and other dynamic team activities applying the basic concept and of ethnic relations in Malaysia.

Look East Policy as our research topic for this work activity. Here, some information about this topic, Look East Policy. In July 1981, Prime Minister Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad became the Prime Minister of Malaysia. After six months in his office, he announced an initiative to learn from the experiences of Japan (and Korea) in the nation-building of Malaysia. He considered that the secret of Japanese success and its remarkable development lies in its labour ethics, morale, and management capability. He felt a programme enabling that young Malaysians to learn in Japan would contribute to the economic and social development of Malaysia. For this purpose, Malaysia decided to dispatch their students to Japan, to study not only academics and technical know-how but also to learn labour ethics and discipline of the Japanese people.

This initiative is called "Look East Policy." The programme consists of two parts. The first is to send Malaysian students to Japanese universities and institutes of technology. The second is to send trainees to Japanese industries and training institutes. These programmes are funded by the Government of Malaysia, and the Government of Japan supports these programmes by sending Japanese teachers to Malaysia and also by sharing a part of its costs.

2. Report Review

In this part, we are going to review all the process doing this study form the beginning until the end of this report. The task is given by the lecturer, Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim to conduct a survey on national policy in Malaysia. All groups have been asked to choose one policy from the national policies in Malaysia, so our group has decided to choose one policy which is Look East Policy. Our groups target is 50 persons consist of male and female students. Our group questions have been constructed in one form which made from Google spreadsheets. The spreadsheets are put in blog which is shirokuronoraifu.blogspot.com.

This survey form consists of 6 questions. 3 of them are subjective and the other 3 are objective s which is answer yes or no and true or false.

3. Analysis and Discussion

1. This policy are the continuity from the ‘Buy British Last’ policy that introduced by Tun Dr Mahathir in year 1981?


This question asked about general knowledge of respondents on the Look East Policy. Near 73% of total respondents answer true. While others 27% of respondents answer false.

2. This policy takes what countries as reference?

In second question, 55% of respondents answer Japan as reference for this policy. While the others 36% answer Japan and South Korea as reference for this policy. 9% of respondents answer Japan, South Korea and China as reference for this policy.

3. What was come into your mind when you heard about the policy?

About 55% of respondents answer economy, 9% of respondents answer social, 9% of respondents answer culture, 9% of respondents answer economy and social, and the rest 9% of respondents answer economy and culture.

4. The industrial training by technical and engineering student are also being introduced under this policy?

Majority of the respondents which is 100% say true.

5.What are the reasons that the 4th Prime Minister introduces this policy?

This question asked about the reasons that the 4th Prime Minister introduces this policy.
As a result, 27% of respondents answer the West Country are no longer rely on the workers ability, 55% of respondents answer Malaysia have a capability to become industrial nation and 9% answer the East country are more rich than West country.

6. In your opinion, does this policy still relevant with our society nowadays?
In this question, we ask the opinion of respondents about the relevant of this policy for nowadays. 82% of respondents answer yes. While others 18% answer no.

4. Conclusion

According to this questionnaire, we believe Look East Policy is famous policy amongst Malaysian and still relevant for nowadays. Majority of respondents have knowledge about this policy.

draMa feat forUm

One week after we finish sketching our comics (our title is colonial era) we need to do drama based on what we sketch. Still I'm too shy to do it but we done our best that day..

Few weeks later, using the same title (colonial era) we need to send one of our group member to be a panel for forum activity. That is our second last group task that we need to do before crossword puzzle (last group task).

CoMiCs

First of all I want to apologize for the slow posting in our blog. It has been almost 14 weeks in Ethnic Relations (ER) class and we had learned so many things in this class, not only about ethnic relations but also other things such as ways to boost self confident, make ourselves confident to talk in English, believe in ourselves to gives our opinion and many more.

There just 1 team activity we all have uploaded since we open this blog, but actually we had done more than that. Our first class activity is the word search that we’ve uploaded, second is dialog which we need to do a dialog based on the sketch given (sorry cant show our work because didn’t take picture of it) and third is comics which we need to sketch the comics together with the dialog. When engineering student draw comics… the result is like this (below)…


Because we do it at last minutes so I can say that I’m satisfied with our comics which we able to do it just in one whole night. Thanks to my group member who gave their best to finish this comics

QUALITY OR POPULARITY?

Who should we vote for? Someone who has popularity or someone who has the quality to become a leader? If this happen in the campus, imagine if it happen to our country.

PEN & UNITY

Pen is a tool that often we see. A simple thing yet a very useful tool for everyone like students, businessman and even a housewife. However this simple thing makes me realize about something that are very important to our society; unity.

As we know pen has a lot of types. Some are big, some small, some are very expensive until reach hundreds of ringgit and some just eighty cent. However when we holding any type of pen and idiotically ask others what was it, they will answer it is a pen. It’s the same thing when we go outside of our beloved country. When other person ask about whom we are, we will proudly answer that we are a Malaysian. No matter where we go, we will answer the same answer. Therefore if we are proudly said that we are Malaysian in other country, why don’t we do the same thing in our own country, by being proud to be a Malaysian in the land of Malaysia?

The second point is when we writing using a pen. When we write something on a paper, we use a little effort to make what we write visible. It is the same as unity. We need a little effort to unite a society. Open house, sports day and telematch in housing area are types of effort we can do in order to form a unity.

My third point is the feeling when we are writing. For example if we are a novelist and suddenly we have a lot of ideas, we will feel very happy and willingly write our ideas even it will take us 10-12 pages. However, imagine when we unwillingly doing our assignment, even though that assignment only required 5 sentences, the feeling to write is very hard. The same case when it came to unity. When we already have bad thoughts towards others, to unite with others will felt very hard. However if we try to have positive thinking and try to not have wrong conception to each other, we can easily communicate with each other and communication can create a bonding between us which lead to the unity.

That is all of my point on how a simple thing like pen can make me realize something very important like unity. Thank you for reading.

FOOD FIESTA!!!

We are now approaching the end of Syawal. However the feel of Eid-ul-Fitr are still inside most of us. As Eid-ul-Fitr are a celebration to celebrate the Muslim after fasting in the month of Ramadhan, a lot of foods were served during this festival. Different culture will served different food. Therefore I would like to share the food we ate in my hometown, Tawau Sabah. It’s not really special though but sharing is caring so let’s fly to Tawau and see what we might serve you.

This food name ‘Lappa’. I’m not really sure about the spelling but that is how my race Buton called it. Originally from South East Sulawesi, Indonesia, Lappa was made using ‘nasi pulut’ and cooked the same way as ‘ketupat’.

This one was name ‘Putu’. It was made using tapioca. It was actually quite similar with ‘Putu’ eaten by Bajau Semporna but different shape.

This is ‘Ambuyat’. It was made from starch or sago. Delicious depends on sauce use. We normally eat it with ‘kuah ikan’. Eaten mostly by Brunei people.

This is ‘Burasak’. Special food for Bugis people. It was made using rice and coconut milk.

Lastly, I would like to share my favorite fruit that I never found in Peninsula Malaysia, ‘Buah Tarap’. The shape was quite similar to ‘Buah Cempedak’ but the size are smaller, the cloves whiter and crowded. The taste is sweet.

Well, that is all for now. Happy eating everybody. ^_^

p/s : Please inform me if I gave wrong information. Thank you.

Cross word puzzle

When we were first told that we are going to do some cross word puzzle, me (Norlailah) and my partner (Nurul Syamimi) is pretty excited. However, once we got the paper we are so surprise that it didn't gave us any hint. So we just circle whatever word that we thought exist. It was very fun while doing this activity because everyone want to be the first couple manage to find all the word. Beside, we also found a lot of other word which make us laugh like ayam, payung, ikan masin and many more. We didn't manage to be the first group because there are some word we don't know;

Ethnocentrism
the ethnic who thought their culture and ethnic is much better than other ethnic.

Enculturation
Process by which a person learns the requirements of the culture by which he or she is surrounded, and acquires values and behaviours that are appropriate or necessary in that culture (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enculturation)

12 Basic Concepts of Ethnics Relation.

BY:
NUR ADILA BINTI MAMAT
NUR SYAKIRAH BINTI SAPIE (tulisan chantek)

At first, i don't feel like doing it because i always thought that this kind of game is boring. But, after forcing myself and being forced by my partner, we were getting excited and trying our very best to solve it. My partner, Syakirah was getting more excited when the lecturer announce that the first group getting it done will get the photo taken. She was so eager to get the first place and contributed a lots of ideas to solve the puzzle (i don't know what is this game called, so i just named it). With so much talking and laughing together and also a little much effort, we lose the game but we both enjoy the game very much.

ASSIMILATION
The blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society.

PLURALISM
A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural group is tolerated.

ACCOMMODATION
A dwelling or place of temporary residence.

PREJUDICE
A preconceived judgment toward a people or a person because of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics.

NATION
a group of people who share common history, culture, ethnic religion and language often possessing or seeking its own language.

DISCRIMINATION
A sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category.

STEREOTYPE
A commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals.

ENCULTURATION
The process by which a person learns the requirements of the culture by which he or she is surrounded and acquires values and behaviors that are appropriate or necessary in the culture.

SEGREGATION
The separation of different kinds of humans into racial groups in daily life.

ACCULTURATION
The exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remains distinct.

ETHNOCENTRISM
The tendency to believe that one's ethnics or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own.

We(sukma and kinah) are very excited when we do this game because this game challenge our mind.We also learn a new words that relates to our subject(Ethnic Relation).We work together to finish the task.During we do this game,the are some problems that we encountered.Most of the words are the new words that we do not know before this. So we must have more effort to finish it.So,it is very important to us to work in team.