Malay Middle-Class Politics, Democracy and Civil Society

Embong, Abdul Rahman

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“…Based on a decolonial approach (Kurtiş & Adams, 2015), this study contributed to a localized model and extended our previous knowledge by conceptualizing grandparents and their preadolescent grandchildren's relationships as a key cultural resource for families across the three ethnic groups in rural Malaysia. Given the changing demographics, this population will continue to grow (Anderson & Barrett, 2020;Embong, 2002). Our study recognized and honored the diversity, complexity, and agency of grandparents and their contributions to their families and communities.…”

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“…Malaysia is a multiethnic and multicultural country located in Southeast Asia, predominantly composed of ethnic Malay, Chinese, and Indian communities. Each ethnicity has its own distinct culture and mother tongue (i.e., Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, and other traditional dialects; Embong, 2002), making Malaysia a multilingual society. In the general psychological literature reflecting traditional Western-based comparative frameworks rooted in coloniality, Asian societies like Malaysia are classified as collectivistic (e.g., Li et al, 2010), valuing interdependence among its members (Embong, 2002).…”

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“…Each ethnicity has its own distinct culture and mother tongue (i.e., Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, and other traditional dialects; Embong, 2002), making Malaysia a multilingual society. In the general psychological literature reflecting traditional Western-based comparative frameworks rooted in coloniality, Asian societies like Malaysia are classified as collectivistic (e.g., Li et al, 2010), valuing interdependence among its members (Embong, 2002). However, this view has been challenged by scholars who posit that the family system could simultaneously value and pursue both values of independence (e.g., autonomy) and interdependence (e.g., relatedness; e.g., Kagitcibasi, 2005).…”

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The contributions of grandparents to preadolescent grandchildren's social skills in rural Malaysia

Tan,

Gan,

Cheah

et al. 2024

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study aimed to generate localized knowledge by investigating the perceptions and experiences of preadolescent grandchildren and grandparents regarding grandparenting and intergenerational interactions and how these processes were related to the social skills of preadolescents from three ethnic groups in Malaysia. Using a concurrent quantitative–qualitative mixed method research design, Chinese, Malay, and Indian preadolescents (N = 465; ages 9–12 years old; M = 10.27 years; SD = 1.03) from rural areas in Malaysia completed a self‐administered quantitative survey; furthermore, 25 grandparents participated in one‐on‐one interviews. Survey findings showed that preadolescent grandchildren who reported higher grandparental warmth and support had greater social skills, mediated by positive grandparent–grandchildren (GP–GC) relationships. The GP–GC relationship and preadolescent social skills association was stronger for skipped generation compared to three‐generation households. Interview findings revealed that grandparents expressed unconditional love and autonomy support in their grandparenting roles by guiding and encouraging their preadolescent grandchildren to make decisions. The GP–GC interactions served as a dynamic force in promoting preadolescents' social skills. By employing a decolonized approach and drawing on the lived experiences of grandparents from three ethnic backgrounds in rural Malaysia, the study provided an understanding of grandparenting practices and their general implications across the three ethnic groups. The interview responses highlighted both commonalities and specificities in grandparenting practices and relationship dynamics shaped by religious, class, and sociocultural dimensions in rural Malaysia.

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The contributions of grandparents to preadolescent grandchildren's social skills in rural Malaysia

Tan,

Gan,

Cheah

et al. 2024

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Blais et al, 2021;Caldara, 2017), even within a shared environment. We conjectured that, although Malay, Chinese and Indian participants have grown up in the same Southeast-Asian country, their different levels of exposure to faces of different races (Tham et al, 2018;Wong et al, 2020) and cultures (Embong, 2002) suggest that face processing styles -and therefore eye movement patterns -may differ between them.…”

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“…Despite a long history of interaction among the Malays, Chinese and Indians, a common culture did not emerge, and each group more or less holds to their own religion, culture, language and tradition (Embong, 2002). The low level of interracial contact during infancy and childhood in Malaysians is commonly reflected through the same-race primary caregivers (Tham et al, 2018) and the racially diversified educational systems in primary and secondary schools (Kawangit et al, 2012).…”

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Do they ‘look’ different(ly)? Dynamic face recognition in Malaysians: Chinese, Malays and Indians compared

Wong

Keeble

Stephen

2023

British J of Psychology

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Previous cross-cultural eye-tracking studies examining face recognition discovered differences in the eye movement strategies that observers employ when perceiving faces. However, it is unclear (1) the degree to which this effect is fundamentally related to culture and ( 2) to what extent facial physiognomy can account for the differences in looking strategies when scanning own-and other-race faces. In the current study, Malay, Chinese and Indian young adults who live in the same multiracial country performed a modified yes/no recognition task. Participants' recognition accuracy and eye movements were recorded while viewing muted face videos of own-and other-race individuals. Behavioural results revealed a clear own-race advantage in recognition memory, and eye-tracking results showed that the three ethnic race groups adopted dissimilar fixation patterns when perceiving faces. Chinese participants preferentially attended more to the eyes than Indian participants did, while Indian participants made more and longer fixations on the nose than Malay participants did. In addition, we detected statistically significant, though subtle, differences in fixation patterns between the faces of the three races. These findings suggest that the racial differences in face-scanning patterns may be attributed both to culture and to variations in facial physiognomy between races.

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Malay Middle-Class Politics, Democracy and Civil Society

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The contributions of grandparents to preadolescent grandchildren's social skills in rural Malaysia

The contributions of grandparents to preadolescent grandchildren's social skills in rural Malaysia

Do they ‘look’ different(ly)? Dynamic face recognition in Malaysians: Chinese, Malays and Indians compared

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