{"id":195,"date":"2007-03-29T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T08:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-03-30T00:08:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T09:08:54","slug":"why-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Why Malaysia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy once asked me this question at one of my project presentation. <strong>Why Malaysia? <\/strong>Why do I choose Malaysia for my research topic? Why national identity? The truth is I didn&#8217;t know Malaysia until I&#8217;m out of Malaysia. I guess that&#8217;s one of my personal reason why I choose Malaysia and why I pick national identity as I main research topic. At the beginning of my research its just about craft and traditional products, then it move on to the identity of Malaysia. When I step in the Malaysian Identity I feel lost. What is my identity? Who Am I? Am I Malay, Chinese, India or am I Malaysian? <strong>Whats make me Malaysian? What is not Malaysian? <\/strong>Is it the food, the life style, tradition, religion, our past or perhaps education that makes us Malaysian. How does this inform and construct the concept of national identity? <strong>Why do we need national identity? Why do we need identity?<\/strong> Is it because to differentiate why race and family we come from? or to recognised our roots of heritage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy once asked me this question at one of my project presentation. Why Malaysia? Why do I choose Malaysia for my research topic? Why national identity? The truth is I didn&#8217;t know Malaysia until I&#8217;m out of Malaysia. I guess that&#8217;s one of my personal reason why I choose Malaysia and why I pick national &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Malaysia?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}