
apakah ada perbedaan antara melayu dan malaysia?
Melayu adalah sejenis etnik.
(Malay is an ethnic group)
Malaysia adalah sebuah negara.
(Malaysia is a country)
Sebenarnya etnik Melayu berasal di Sumatera, Indonesia.
(Actually, Malays originated from Sumatra, Indonesia)
Semenanjung Malaysia terletak di tengah-tengah Asia Tenggara.
(Peninsula Malaysia is situated in the middle of southeast asia)
Penduduk majoriti di Semenanjung Malaysia merupakan kacukan Siam, Kemboja, Vietnam, Cina dan India.
(Majority of the inhabitants in Peninsula Malaysia were mixed of Siamese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian.)
Parameswara, seorang putera Melayu dari Sumatera telah membuka sebuah kerajaan di Semenanjung Malaysia pada tahun 1400.
(PArameswara, a Malay prince from Sumatra opened a kingdom in Peninsula Malaysia in the year 1400)
Sejak itu, kebanyakkan bangsa-bangsa di Semenanjung Malaysia telah diislamkan dan dimelayukan.
(since then, most ethnic groups in Peninsula Malaysia was Islamized and Malayanized)
Bagi kami di utara Malaysia, kami mempunyai keturunan Siam. Walaupun kami berbicara dalam bahasa Melayu dan mengamalkan Islam, tetapi kebudayaan kami lebih banyak persamaan dengan orang Siam daripada orang Melayu di Sumatera.
(For us in Northern part of Malaysia, we have Siamese ancestry. Even we speak in Malay and practicing Islam, but our cultures are more similar to Siamese rather than Malays of Sumatra)
Selepas Malaysia merdeka, 'Melayu' ditakrifkan dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan sebagai:
(After the independent of Malaysia, 'Malay' is defined by the Federal Constitution as
1) Warganegara Malaysia
(1. Malaysian citizen)
2) Beragama ISlam
(2. Adheres to ISlam)
3) Berbahasa Melayu
(3. Habitually speaks Malay Language)
4) Beradat Melayu
(4. Practicing Malay customs)
Oleh kerana definisi ini, warganegara Malaysia berbangsa Arab, India, Pakistan, Afghan, Parsi, Turki, Siam, Kemboja, Cina, Jawa dan lain-lain yang beragama Islam dianggap 'Melayu'.
(Because of this definition, Malaysian citizens among Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis, Afghans, Persians, Turks, Siamese, Cambodians, Chinese, Javanese etc. who are Muslims are considered as 'Malays'.