Fourth, the politics in the country itself must speak the narrative of unity and not play on racial and religious sentiments. This is the main challenge of almost all multi-racial countries. Laws must be enforced strictly against politicians who use this dangerous divisive method to garner political support, even during elections. Fifth, since Muslims form the majority population of Malaysia, we should be wary that the enemies of the state may try to destabilise the country by creating disunity among the Muslims.
This may be done in many ways including accentuating differences in interpretation negatively or violently, encouraging extremist behaviors and thoughts and politicising the religion of Islam. Divisiveness within the majority religious group in the country does not augur well for national unity. Sixth, the content of what is being taught in schools especially history.
School curriculum must be focused on the effective dissemination of information for the purposes of education, encourage critical and creative thinking, imbibe the interest in life long-learning and the ability to distinguish between facts and fiction.
It cannot however sacrifice truth or facts in order to bolster patriotism or ethnic pride. History must be taught in a way that does not offend the sensibilities of a multicultural, multiracial and multi-religious community like ours. Seventh, we need to seriously teach compassion as an important value in our schools. If we have compassion, we will be able to reduce our collective sufferings and increase our collective happiness because we will try to understand the pain and suffering of the other.
When the heart is compassionate, unity among humans follows automatically. At the end of the day, our policy makers and the policy implementers must endeavour to make Malaysians, regardless of their ethnicity, religion or culture, feel that Malaysia is their home that they can depend on. Only then will there be unity, love and the willingness to make individual sacrifices for the sake of the nation — if and when the need arises.
The views expressed here are entirely his own. To achieving national unity. By Jahaberdeen M. Through Many Windows 10 Oct The authority and the people.
The question always is — what is the common good and the Malaysian dream? This field is mandatory. Email optional Please enter valid email. Please re-try again. Thank you for your report! Related News. Next In Letters. Diabetes prevention starts with us Premium. Urgent need for plan to tackle climate emergency Premium. Community needs a bit more in allocations from Budget Premium. Plea for fair processing of travel pass Premium.
Vehicle leasing a non issue Premium. Opportunity to prepare players Premium. Getting booster shots should be made easier Premium. Tax rebate for safety gear Premium. Still shaping views but with revised versions Premium. To explain what unity is, it is easier to see it as the absence of waror anarchy in a particular place. When people live in unity, they prosper and live in happiness because of the sincerity of purpose and dedication to one course.
In this article, i will be explaining the meaning of National Unity and the ways of promoting national unity in a nation. I enjoin you to read carefully if you want to learn anything from this article. Here are the ways of promoting national unity in a nation. National unity is the living together of a particular ethnic group or nation in peace harmony, devoid of any form of disagreement, anarchy or animosity, this is aimed at promoting their economic and social status. People with a viable national unity usually performs better than places without national unity.
In when the civil war broke out in Nigeria, millions of people were killed and properties worth billions were vandalized. For a better explanation of the meaning of National Unity, i strongly recommend that you watch the video below:. In a country of multiple national group, there are so many people with different cultures and traditions, which influences their ideologies about life and about how to approach things.
To promote national unity, one therefore needs to accept and Accord every person the respect he deserves in matters relating to differences in ideologies a d understanding. Tolerance is divided into two vis-a-vis, Religions Tolerance and Tribal Tolerance. Tribal Tolerance: Tribal Tolerance is the act of according people of other tribes the respect they deserve as a people.
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