Cultural diversity: A danger?

When living in an environment that has cultural diversity, it creates an environment that is both good and bad. It presents opportunities and challenges. It is great to live in such an environment while growing up as it teaches us to be more open-minded and accepting towards the tradition and cultures of other ethnicities. 

A few counties in the ASEAN region are countries with cultural diversity and It also gives us a broader perspective of the world we live in as well as teach the younger generation how to live in harmony with others. In a world and era that is consistently growing and people cross paths with others from other cultures it is important for us to understand the term cultural diversity and respect it. Opposing it only creates a rift from disrespect toward how others celebrate life.

This has happened in the past due to stereotypes and prejudices that grew into a sense of disgust and worst yet; hatred towards other cultures. In Malaysia, such an incident that occurred is known as the 13^th May incident, it is well-known by the people and is taught to children in school to remind them how the three main races fought out of disagreement and to remind them not to make such mistakes again.

Both Singapore and Malaysia are multiracial countries and they are well-known for being able to live in such environment peacefully albeit there being disagreements here and there; but the general public are able to live together peacefully. The people are taught at a young age to respect and understand others from another culture and learn to live in harmony with them.

While cultural diversity can pose a threat to one culture overshadows the other, it can be avoided if we respect their individuality and traditions as well practices. Unlike Malaysia which is essentially an Islamic country, Singapore respects it's citizens who are Muslim and do take care in meeting their needs by providing eateries and places of worship.

With that, we hope everyone has safe travels wherever you are and if you happen to be in culturally diversed country, do be careful f our actions so we don't unintentionally offend others! Till net time everyone!!