Ethnic coexistence in a pluralistic campus environment |
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| Authors: | Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | In Malaysia, ethnic segregation seems to have grown more and more pronounced at all levels of education, which may have in
the main contributed to increasing occupational segregation by ethnicity when the graduates left to join the job market. Such
trends may be disturbing given the effort the country has put in to promote interethnic understanding and reduce interethnic
economic disparity since 1970. By critically investigating the dynamics of ethnic coexistence in the microcosm of the university
campus environment, this paper provides statistical evidence to show how far the country has progressed in terms of ethnic
relations since the watershed events of May 13, 1969; to what extent Malaysian multiethnic society is different now compared
to the unmistakable racial “corporateness” and interethnic “separateness” that Furnivall observed in his classic study of
1948; and in what ways ethnic relations have been reshaped by three decades of affirmative action policies and the form of
ethnic democracy adapted for this unique society.
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| Keywords: | Malaysia Race relations Ethnic diversity Social distance Social and academic interactions |
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