princess, Hang Li Po, to the Sultan of Malacca as a token of appreciation for his tribute. The royalty and servants who accompanied the princess initially settled in Bukit Cina and eventually grew into a class of Straits-born Chinese known as the Peranakans. Due to economic hardships at mainland China, waves of immigrants from China settled in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Some of them embraced the local customs, while still retaining some degree of their ancestral culture; The were partially
2. Culture and Identity: Chinese ethnic in Malaysia Culture is defined as “the way of life of a people” (Hall, 1996; Mathews, 2000). Culture will be developed over period of time as society keeps learning their culture; they will silhouette their behaviours and characters (Mathews, 2000). Culture is profound, common, un-stated experiences which group members of a given culture share. The member communicates with one another without knowing, and which form the surroundings against which all other
Museum (ACM) shows the history and culture of Singapore’s ancestral cultures. The Singapore Art Museum is home to the world’s largest public collection of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian artworks. The Peranakan Museum keeps the world’s finest and most comprehensive collection of Peranakan artifacts that represent a unique cultural tradition. The Singapore Philatelic Museum collects stamps and archival philatelic materials of Singapore from the 1830’s to the present day. The National Art Gallery
In one sense, ideology is an approach made by a filmmaker to expose his/her audience to a certain issue that might be never exposed by other filmmakers. These filmmakers want their audience to understand what they are trying to imply in their films. In other words, ideology is defined as one person’s belief where he/she (most of the time is the filmmaker itself) tries to pinpoint what message(s) his/her film aims to convey and communicate about a particular issue(s). For example, there are certain