Class Discussion - East Malaysia

Sabah and Sarawak is located at the east of Malaysia. Malaysian called there as East Malaysia. And the place that I grow up is Selangor which is located at west of Malaysia, also known as West Malaysia. The main economic is come from West Malaysia.

The above is the flag for Sabah and following with Sarawak. 

In today class, we had discuss what we had know about the East Malaysia. But most of us not really know deeply about it. We just know they are located and East Malaysia and covered with all jungle. This knowledge is what we had learn in our primary and secondary school. 

But I knew a little bit about the lifestyle because of my friend. Every time I worked when my semester break, I know a lot of friend from different state, different race, different cultural and different religion. As we know that Malaysia is a multi-cultural country, we have the ability to know many cultural when we are young. But I'm so surprise that the lifestyle at East Malaysia are different from us. 

As I know from my friend who came here to work, he told me that people in West Malaysia are selfish. Anything that happened around they will just walk away and ignore the incident. The example that gave from my friend is like rob. People in West Malaysia will just ignore the incident, but people in Eat Malaysia will coming out and help to catch the robbery. Every single house in East Malaysia are helping each other and will have communication everyday. But in West Malaysia, people are busy in the life, busy to work, busy to study, they live in their own life and not communicate with other. They just stay in the own circle. Many of the West Malaysia maybe not knowing the neighbour after staying long time. I feel that people is East Malaysia are more human touch than West Malaysia. 

Other than that, we can see the restaurant in Sabah and Sarawak sitting with different races. The Malay can get inside Chinese restaurant as long as they do not having any non-halal food. Not like the restaurant in West Malaysia, people will feel weird when seeing Malay having meals in Chinese restaurant. Because Chinese restaurant always served with the non-halal ingredient. 

There also have two main race group in East Malaysia, which is Kadazan that mostly located at Sabah, and Iban that mostly located at Sarawak.

The costume of Iban is more on colourful.

The costume of Kadazan is more on black. 

I feel that people in East Malaysia are most unity than West Malaysia. And I will make a chance to visit East Malaysia in future.