Tribal Malaysian Society

,,,How best to explain this tribal malaysian society, meaning that it is made up of groups of people who share a common ancestry, religion, culture and generally from well defined region. Laws were designed to bring uniformity to society and to serve the interest of the ruling class or/and the so called majority.
,,,Lives of the locals were so closely intertwined and so ruled by convention, causing them to think and act so much alike, that they often seemed to behave more byinstinct than rational thought. The educational and economic system of the country was/is designed to further this herd-like approach in life and living.
,,,Behavior in virtually all circumstances was/is minutely prescribed, and therefore became predictable to an extrordinary degree. Any aberrations from “normal” expected behavior were serious transgressions, and were routinely punished or ISA to be more direct.
,,,This high degree of cultural conformity and social control reduced the role of independent thought and action, often resulting in “intuition” being dominant in malaysian society. All Malaysian is expected to “KNEW” what was/is right or wrong without applying rational thought !. Such that the use of objctive reason in making decision and settling matters was/is regarded as cold and often inhuman.
,,,Using “intuition” was/is better than using reason because more often than not it represented the only culturally acceptable so called solution.
,,,Malaysian society today is fast changing but enough of the old traditional cultural conditioning remains in the make-up of the average middle-aged and older malaysian to cause them to first react intuitively to almost virtually everything that confronts them.
,,,Many older Malaysian, especially those in UMNO/BN are simply behind the times. They just deny the extraordinary changes that have taken place in the life styles of the younger generations plus the educated malaysian public.

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