GENDER DISCRIMINATION (WOMEN)

Gender discrimination is refers to beliefs and attitude in relation to the sex of a person. For example, for the Chinese culture, male is more significant than women. This is because the male can inherited the family name from generation to generation.

WOMEN, CULTURE AND RELIGION
The different religions and cultures of Malaysia have many outlook in women's lives. However, women are discriminated against by their religions and cultures, especially in the area of marriage and divorce.
After marriage, many women are expected to remain in the home, as a homemakers and mothers. If women are given the choice to work, many are forced to give their salaries to their husbands. Many women who work before marriage have been ordered to give up their jobs when they marry.
Several of the religions practice in Malaysia, including Islam, Catholicism, Buddhism and Hinduism, deny women access to interpreting and implementing their blessed texts. Such patriarchal structures and practices contribute to women's lack of representation in leadership positions. Women are also denied access to certain blessed places and rituals. For example, if they are in menstruation. Such practices encourage negative attitudes towards women, such as disrespect to men, and degrade the status of women.

WOMEN DISCRIMINATION IN PLACE OF WORK, SCHOOLS, MEDIA, GOVERNMENT, LAWS AND IN HOME
Gender roles, patriarchal attitudes in religion and culture permeate through society, and are reflected in the nation's schools, in places of work, in media, government, laws and in the home.
In school curriculum, religious teaching material and media images continue to stereotype women as homemakers when many women in Malaysia work and pursue careers.
Although the number of women members of political parties is high, representation of women in decision-making positions in the government and other statutory bodies is poor.
Even though the number of economically active women has increased, the largest growth in women's participation has been in middle and low-level jobs, such as clerical and production jobs. And while more women are entering professional sectors, this is largely restricted to nursing and teaching professions.

SUMMARY

Female and male are same in every aspects. However, female discrimination is occur against their culture, religions and beliefs. Elderly women may face double discrimination on the basis of both gender and age. Women tend to live longer than men, may lack control of family resources and can face discrimination from inheritance and property laws. Therefore, many organisation such as Women's Aid Organisation is organise to help to overcome this case.

COMMUNICATION

Communication is a process of transferring information from one person to another person. Communication can be perceived as a two-way process in which there is an exchange and progression of thoughts, feelings or ideas towards a mutually accepted goal or direction. Communication is not just a word. It also includes body languages, voice tonality and words. There are 55% of impact is determined by body language—postures, gestures, and eye contact, 38% by the tone of voice, and 7% by the content or the words used in the communication skills. Communication skills are asset to any person to make people trust, respect and like you. So we must have it to become more confident when talk to another people. Therefore, believe yourself also important in communication.

WHY COMMUNICATION FAIL??

What is mean by communication fail? Communication failure is loss of private and public communication systems with public people. This is difficult to person talk to you from understand about what are you says. Poor communication skills, disagreements and misunderstanding can be a source of anger and distance or a springboard to a stronger relationship and happier future.

THE REASON WHY COMMUNICATION FAIL

There are several reasons why communication can be fail. There is failure to listen,dishonest misleading communications, communication are confusing, different language,cultural and personal. The main reason why communication is fail is did not pay attention when communication is occur. Attention and focus is important in communication. If we did not focus during communicate with other peoples, we will not understand what did he or she say. That why focus and attention is need when communicate with other peoples.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS??

Base on our research, there are some ways to improve our communication skills.Improving your communication skills will improve your productivity. The way to improve your communication skills are develop your voice, slow down the intonation, animate your voice, use appropriate volume, pronounce your words correctly, use the right words, make eye contact with the person you communicate with, use gestures and don't send mixed messages.

Gesture is important in communication. During communicate, make your whole body talk. Use smaller gestures for individuals and small groups. The gestures should get larger as the group that one is addressing increases in size. Beside that, if you speak too fast also will cause communication fail. Therefore, you must to slow down your intonation. However, he careful not to slow down to the point where people begin to finish your sentences just to help you finish.

TIPS TO UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE

There are some tips to understanding people. First, you must remember that the communication skills should be mutual understanding and finding a solution that pleases both parties. This does not work in every situation. But sometimes body language such as hold hands or stay physically connected as you talk can remind you that you still care about each other. Secondly is the respectful. Respectful is important during communication. Keep in mind that it's important to remain respectful of the other person, even you don't like their attitude and actions.

Beside that, you also must watch your language. Don't always say the rude words. This will make other peoples dislike you. When you are communicate with somebody, you must give them respond and feedback. So that they know that you are listening to what they talking about. The most important is be an active listener. Benefits of active listening include stronger trust, fewer conflicts and, ultimately, better relationships and thereby greater happiness.

SUMMARY

Many people think that communication is just talking a lot and speaking clearly. However, communication is more than that!! Body language, voice tonality and words are include in the communication. Therefore, to have a good communication, we have to pay attention and focus to other peoples when they are talking to us. If not, your poor communication skills could be causing additional stress in your life.

MALAYSIAN LANGUAGES

Malaysia is a multiracial country. Malaysia has a population of Malays, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic groups. Malaysia is unique because of its diversity of races, religions and cultures, the stability of the country and many places of interests. By this different race, so different language is spoken by all the Malaysian. However, with the Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia,all the Malaysian agree that Bahasa Malaysia as the lingua franca of Malaysia.

MOTHER TONGUE IN MALAYSIA

A language is a system for encoding and decoding information. Malaysia is a multiracial country which has many languages such as Bahasa Malaysia, English, Tamil, Chinese and more. The Malay is the largest ethic group in Malaysia. Therefore, Bahasa Malaysia has become the mother tongue in Malaysia.

MALAY LANGUAGES
Not only Malaysian spoken Malay language, but all Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands and other country also use it. This language also similar to local language in Indonesia, know as Bahasa Indonesia.

ENGLISH LANGUAGES
The national languages is Bahasa Malaysia (MalayLanguage). However, automatically English has become the second languages. This is because we has been widely spoke and used English language in Malaysia. English Language being a compulsory subject in primary schools, lower and upper secondary school and the local version of '0' level examinations. It also is the main languages spoken in colleges and universities. Beside that, English is the languages of private business and tourism in Malaysia. When the tourist visit Malaysia country, it is easy for the Malaysian to communicate with them. By speaking English, we also can improve our English languages pronunciation. Nowadays, English is very important. So we must improve our pronunciation, listening and writing in English. Official languages is Bahasa Malaysia and English. It is important to learn English languages as the English is the lingua franca of the Internet.

OTHER LANGUAGES
The Chinese and Indians, two of the largest minority groups, speak a number of languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Malayalam, and Punjabi. There are a lots of dialect use by the Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. Examples for Chinese dialect is Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan and Foo Chow. For the Indian is Tamil, Malayalam and Panjabi. In East Malaysia, there are several indigenous language. Most widely spoken are Thai language, Iban language and Kadazan language.

It is compulsory for Malaysians to learn Bahasa Malaysia and English at school. But for Chinese and Indians learn Mandarin and Tamil at school respectively. Apart from that, Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien are also widely spoken by the Chinese. Meanwhile, the Ibans and the Khadazans in Sabah and Sarawak also learn their native languages at school. Nowadays, Malay and Indian parents also allow their children to learn Mandarin because Mandarin has become important in the cooperate world.

SUMMARY

While growing up, children are educated in the same schools and will eventually work in the same offices. Beside that, a few will marry outside their own ethnicity. Therefore, as a Malaysian, we have to know all about the differences of ethic in Malaysia such as their lifestyles, their beliefs and also their language. Despite the ethnic differences there are commonalities culturally speaking. Therefore, it is good for us to know all the language in Malaysia. So, we can communicate with different ethnics by using different language.

GOTHICS SUBCULTURE IN MALAYSIA

A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Many youth subcultures are associated with specific music genres. Examples of youth subcultures is punk rockers, ravers, Metal heads, Goths, hip hoppers, emo and indie.

WHAT IS GOTHICS?

Crazy of Gothics! Gothics or Goths is music genres come from branch of rock music by the late 1970s. Originally, Gothics is a music brought by a band who struggle for a punk rock rhythm which then change to romantic and fantasy rhythm. It is associated with Gothics tastes in music and in Gothics fashion. Styles of dress range from Gothics horror, punk, Victorian and lots of black.

GOTHICS FASHION

Gothics fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes abnormal, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothics fashion includes dyed of black hair, dark eyeliner, black fingernails, black period-styled clothing. Gothics may or may not have piercings. Styles are often borrowed from the Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and often express Catholic of other religious imagery. Their use of black clothing was originally "something of a backlash to the colorful disco music of the seventies.

GOTHICS IN MALAYSIA

Now, the youth in Malaysia also influenced with the Gothics subculture. However, unfortunately, they follow this subculture without knowing what is the purpose and the history of Gothics subculture. Even some of them also do not know what actually Gothics music is. Actually, in western country, the Gothics fashion arise at early aged and this fashion is very popular in Japan.

HOW ARE GOTHICS RECRUITED?

Everybody wonders why do they love to dress up like that. May be they need a lots of love or attention from other peoples. A lot of people turn to the Gothics subculture after having a hard time in school, feeling alienated, and looking for a way to express themselves that mirrors those feelings. Others find the scene through literature, still others want to be shocking, and some people just find black clothing slimming.

The most powerful mode of recruitment for Gothics is music. Many young people are originally attracted through concert and music fests. Gothics rock is a musical sub genre of alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothics rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes. Examples of Gothics rock bands are Advent sleep, Black Ice, The Damned, Ghose Dance, Ikon, James Rays Gangwar and more.

The Malaysia's youth also involve in Gothics subculture because of Gothics fashion. They think that the fashion is suitable for the younger. Gothics fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Gothics subculture. They wearing an unique accessory, short skirt or blouse, eyeliner,high heel shoes, dark lipstick and dyed black hair.

SUMMARY

In Malaysia, almost half of the youth have join this subculture. We can see this members of Gothics subculture in big city such as Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam and more. Therefore, parents are play an important role to decreases the number of members of Gothics subculture in Malaysia.