How to foster unity among school and university students.

      Our beloved country Malaysia has always been well recognized globally for its multi racial society that lives in harmony. It is important to maintain this unity that makes us all uniquely Malaysian. Unity must start from everyone’s heart. It must start from young. It must start from all levels.

 

      In my opinion, i agree that cultural performances should be practised among the students because it is the simplest and the best way to foster unity among students. Everyone must respect the various differences that can exist in a multi racial society, be in religious or other practices. Maybe one racial practice may contradict the belief of another but when you respect that difference, you learn to accept it as well. The best possible way to promote this would be to organize activities where everyone can learn and share more information about each other’s culture. We could organize more campaigns or even camps for everyone to participate, from school level right up to corporate world. We could make more documentaries for people to watch and books for people to read. A learned society is indeed a wise society.

      Unity must be promoted from young. From the small steps of kindergarten right to the halls of universities, parents and teachers play a crucial role in this. Children learn by example therefore parents must set a good example of interacting well with a multi racial and multi religious society. Prejudices and biases learnt at childhood will manifest into more serious level at adulthood. Teachers must reinforce unity in school. We must have students of different races work close with each other rather than segregating the groups.

       I conclude my opinion by agreeing that cultural performances should be done in order to foster unity among school and university students.