TASAWUR MELAYU

THE MALAY WORLDWIDE

Every other living organism are genetically distinguished into species. People are as one species (homosapiens). Other races have acclaimed to a particular locality develop their own CULTURE.

The culture of Malay

Culture is the belief and behavior characteristic of a particular group of people. The environment teach them the way they act, growing vocabulary, language, communication and intellectualism. Culture also implies a level of quality and to cultivate, to grow and to develop.

Achievement – intellectuality through everyday arts, food, dress, craftsmanship. The behavior in acquiring preparation, consumption of the food and disposal of water. Bahasa Melayu develop from animistic worldview to Hindu-Buddhatic to muslim. World around them has broadened into ‘dunia’ and ‘alam’ . 17^th and 18^th century, European writers describe Malay as ‘ language of learned in all the Indies’ like Latin in Europe. 15^th and 19^th, Malay was language of literature.