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(KMPP)
RESEARCHER :
1. N
2. N
3. M
4. L
SEMESTER 2 2009/2010
ABSTRACT
This paper attempts to finish out the relationship among races Penang Matriculation
College (KMPP). Further information is derived from questionnaire which was administered
three parts of elicitations; Part A about the respondent’s background, Part B about the amount
of friends from other races and Part C about the respondent’s opinion which is related with
the issues. The research shows that KMPP students are very unite with their friends from the
different races and they feel very happy to live under one roof.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank God! Our group is able to complete the assignment successfully. Firstly we want
to thank to our English lecturer, Pn. Zaiton bt Yusof who helped us a lot to succeed this job.
Furthermore, she also gave us some useful information to enable us to cope the problems and
Besides that, we also never forget to thank to our other English lecturers who had also
helped us so much and our classmates who had also supported us spiritually and also had
INTRODUCTION
Relationship among races is very crucial to our country, as our country is multi-races.
We can interact with each other without any problem. Besides, we can also learn about the
culture of other races and respect their culture. Many of us nowadays, feel enjoy and
comfortable when hanging out with their friends from different races during weekends. This
situation will strengthen the relationship between our friend from different races. But they
are also have some people face difficulty to start a conversation with friend from different
races. One of the factor is they feel difficult to adapt or do not understand the languages
LITERATURE REVIEW
Patterns of this behaviour may be acquired and transmitted from one individual and
generation to another, and finally develop into a system of things and events. In Malaysia,
we have many different races such as Malay, Chinese, Indian and the other from Sabah and
Sarawak. All of the races were responsible to develop Malaysia to emulate with the other
There have been several categories on the characteristic of culture outlined by scholars
for studying the different races. Prominent among them are those by Harris and Moran
(1979), who outlined the categories of : Communication and Language, Dress and
Harris and Moran (1979) followed by developing a second approach, which is called
“The System Approach”. Here, they see culture as a combination of correlated parts which
form a unitary whole. The elements include the kinship system, educational system,
“ The unity existing among the major races must be strengthened further”, said Women,
Family, and Community Development and MIC deputy president Dato’ G. Palanivel,
according to the Tamil Nesan reported. He said, it was important to ensure that the people
were united and lived happily without problems among the races. He said that the open
houses held during each festival helped to strengthen unity and better understanding among
the people. He also said that MIC branches and other Indian organisations throughout the
country should organise such gatherings so that people in the area could together to forge
better understanding and work together to find solutions for outstanding problems.
METHODOLOGY
The study was a non-experimental descriptive research or study that attempted to look into
the relationship among races. It involved both qualitative and quantitative analysis of data.
The subject of this study consisted of 35 students of various races from all three courses,
namely Biology, Physics and Accounting. All of them were chosen to answer the
The instruments used in this study is questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed for
the collection of data with regards to the relationship among races in KMPP.
questionnaires ware collected from them the following day to give them the ample time to
FINDINGS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The sample for this research study consists of 35 students from Kolej Matrikulasi Pulau
Pinang. These students required to answer the questionnaire to provide us some information
about the participants. They consist of bumiputera and non-bumiputera students from three
different courses. The data obtain through this questionnaire has been analyzed using
descriptive statistics. The first part of the questionnaire asked about the respondent’s
Referring to table 1,the number of respondents is 35;10 male students and 25 female
students. The students were chosen at random. 22 students were bumiputera and 13 students
were non-bumiputera.
The second part of the questionnaire asked question about the amount of friends from
Based on the table above, every student got friend from different races. 8 students have
less than 3 friends , 20 students have 4-8 friends, 2 students have 9-15 friends and 5 students
The third part of the questionnaire asked questions about the respondent’s opinion which
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 7 20.00
Disagree 2 5.71
Neutral 9 25.72
Agree 3 8.57
Strongly Agree 14 40.00
Total 35 100
Based on the table above 20% of students strongly disagree with the suggestion, 5.71% of
students disagree with the suggestion, 25.72% of students neutral with the suggestion, 8.57%
of students agree with the suggestion and 40% of students strongly agree with the suggestion.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 0 0
Disagree 2 5.71
Neutral 8 22.86
Agree 14 40.00
Strongly Agree 11 31.43
Total 35 100
The table above shows no student said strongly disagree, 2 students said disagree, 8
students said neutral, 14 students said agree and 11 students said strongly agree.
Table 5 Feel enjoy and comfortable when hanging-out with your friends from different
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 2 5.71
Disagree 0 0
Neutral 16 45.71
Agree 12 34.29
Strongly Agree 5 14.29
Total 35 100
The table above shows , 2 students said strongly disagree, no student said disagree, 16
students said neutral, 12 students said agree and 5 students said strongly disagree.
Table 6 Make friends with other races can improve our language.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 1 2.86
Disagree 1 2.86
Neutral 5 14.28
Agree 19 54.28
Strongly Agree 9 25.72
Total 35 100
Based on the table 6, 2.86% of students said strongly disagree, 2.86% of students said
disagree, 14.28% of students said neutral, 54.28% students said agree and 25.72% of students
Table 7 Can cooperate well with members from different races in a group’s activity
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 1 2.86
Disagree 3 8.57
Neutral 7 20.00
Agree 16 45.71
Strongly Agree 8 22.86
Total 35 100
Based on the table above, 2.86% of students said strongly disagree, 8.57% of students said
disagree, 20% of students said neutral, 45.71% of students said agree and 22.86% of students
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 7 20.00
Disagree 9 25.72
Neutral 13 37.14
Agree 4 11.43
Strongly Agree 2 5.71
Total 35 100
Based on the table above, 7 students said strongly disagree, 9 students said disagree, 13
students said neutral, 4 students said agree, and 2 students said strongly agree.
Table 9 Always celebrate the different race’s festivals such as their open houses.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 5 14.29
Disagree 5 14.29
Neutral 20 57.14
Agree 3 8.57
Strongly Agree 2 5.71
Total 35 100
The table above shows 14.29% of students said strongly disagree, 14.29% of students
said disagree, 57.14% of students said neutral, 8.57% of students said agree and 5.71% of
Table 10 Your friends from different races are always concern and care about your
problems.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 0 0
Disagree 2 5.71
Neutral 20 57.14
Agree 10 28.58
Strongly Agree 3 8.57
Total 35 100
Table 10 shows no students said strongly disagree, 2 students said disagree, 20 students
said neutral, 10 students said agree and only 3 students said strongly agree.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 1 2.86
Disagree 4 11.43
Neutral 20 57.14
Agree 6 17.14
Strongly Agree 4 11.43
Total 35 100
The table above shows only 1 student said strongly disagree, 4 students said disagree, 20
students said neutral, 6 students said agree and 4 students said strongly agree.
Table 12 You think that having friends from different races is a good opportunity.
Frequency Percentage(%)
Strongly disagree 2 5.71
Disagree 2 5.71
Neutral 8 22.86
Agree 12 34.29
Strongly Agree 11 31.43
Total 35 100
Based on the table above, 2 students said strongly disagree, 2 students said disagree, 8
students said neutral, 12 students said agree and 11 students said strongly agree.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
From our study, we have found out how is the relationship among races in KMPP.
From the survey, we found that the majority of respondents strongly agreed that the idea of
Colleges is a good suggestion. The majority of them also agreed that their friends from
different races respect their culture. Most of them said neutral on feeling enjoy and
comfortable when hanging-out with their friends from different races during weekend.
From the questionnaire answered by the students, more than 50% of students said agree
that make friends with other races can improve their language. Our findings also show that
the majority of respondents agreed that they can cooperate well with members from different
races in a group’s activity. But, seems that the students feel a difficult to start a conversation
with friends from different races when there are only 17.14% of respondents said agree and
From the analysis that we did, only 5.71% of respondents said strongly agree that they
always celebrate the different race’s festivals and 57.14% of them just answered neutral to
that statement. Amazingly, no respondent thinks that their friends from different races did
not care and concern about their problems. Means that, the students in KMPP are always
care and concern about their friend’s problem even they came from different races and
backgrounds.
Clearly from our findings, majority of the respondents feel neutral to live with friends
from different races under one roof. The majority of them also agreed that having friends
From the study that we have conducted, we have found that students in KMPP can accept
to study together with friends from different races in one place and feel comfortable to that
condition. They think that having friends from different races is a good opportunity to
Furthermore, for them, there are no resistance to be cooperate and interact among each
other. Even they are from different races, they still can be caring and concern on each other.
Therefore, we can conclude that, the relationship among races in KMPP is very good and still
can be improve.
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