"Other than the Malays, Chinese and Indians, Sarawak has 33 ethnic groups, and we have been living peacefully together even before independence. I think there is no point in having such a law and we don't need it," said Awang Tengah on Friday, matter-of-factl
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SABAHKITA SAID:
I am staying in the middle of the Chinese community in Kota Kinabalu City. The first cousins of my children are consisting of:-
a. Kadazandusun
b. Chinese
c. Indian
d. Iranun
e. Brunei and
f. Bajau
My daughter speaks and writes better Chinese than many Chinese in Malaysia. My two sons are Americans.
I was brought up in a small district, synonymous to "The Cowboy Town of The East", Kota Belud. The multiracial community assimilation in this particular Cowboy Town has really reached its maturity level. It should be considered the right, if not the perfect "model of unity" in Malaysia. In spite of its very vogue name, most people in this town speak multilingual. One should not be suprised when encountering and hearing "The Chinese people, among them, arguing in local dialict better than their's".
The words "pagari", 'denakan", "tampinai", "langu' ", "bayau" and "sifu" are very much alive ever in this very unique Cowboy Town. No place for rules of the guns here. The town is very famous with "parang" NOT as a weapon but a decoration or a momento instead. The town is also famous with "kain dastar", a tradisional woven cloth by Iranun people. Dastar has been a shared tradition among indigenous people in Sabah for hundreds years.
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I totally agree with you.
It is true that race was never an issue in Sabah and Sarawak. That makes us unique because we can mix around with other races. Most of my friends are Kadazan, Chinese, Bajau and Brunei or any other races. I got no problem with them and we always drink coffee or tea at one table. :)
Race was never an issues for East Malaysians. We can still gather and sit in one table in a Chinese coffee shop. It doesn't matter if you are Chinese, Indian, Bajau, Kadazan, Melayu-Brunei. We are a unique and special state where it's people have high tolerance with other different races, ethnicity and religions.
ya betul... Di sabah & sarawak tak timbul isu kaum, bangsa & agama...
Saya orang Sabah. Famili saya besar dan ada yg menganut agama islam juga tapi kami tetap tinggal satu bumbung.. Ok ja pun...
Saya study 4 tahun d Kuching dan langsung tak perrnah timbul isu perkauman ata keagamaan dikalangan kawan2... Malah kami boleh makan di kedai food court sama2 and duduk satu meja walaupun makanan saya tak halal...
Kami saling menghormati satu sama lain..
saya harap takkan timbul isu perkauman di Borneo :)
That's why I love being Sabahan...
I Love Sabah too... mmmuuuuuuuuuaaaksss :)
I’m extremely proud to be a Sabahan, reason as said in the article and others comments above...
While I’m studying at Sarawak I noticed that my Muslims freind are willing to sit in a restaurant which they knew sell pork . We are not ‘geli’ to share the same table though I eat kolo mee with char siew while they happily eating their nasi ayam. For me, as long as I don’t mix my food with them and they don’t touch what I eat we can enjoy our meal together :)
Ooo Thanks God I’m proud to be Sabahan and I love my sarawakians friends.
Hooray for Sabah. I'm really proud to be a Sabahan. Our people can speak all kinds of languages which we learn from each other and it's a blessing!!
My former Secondary School is a school that consist various kind of people, all of them are the same. Friendly and open minded. That's what i like about my hometown!!
Peace is in the air between Sabah and Sarawak. Races are one and we think the best for each other.
Well, race should not be a reason to mingle with each other... so what if we had a different race... we still human not a monster.... we just live only for a while in this world.. everything is not ours..... we just borrow it from HIM.. so World Peace!
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