Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Race? I shall finish the race...

In 1 Malaysia there is no race, just Malaysians.

What is race in Wikipedia?

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Nah, not this race...

The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. The most widely used human racial categories are based on salient visual traits (especially skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture), and self-identification.


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Govt mulls over idea to remove requirement from official forms
Wednesday August 19, 2009

Stating your race on official forms will no longer be a requirement soon. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Cabinet was studying the move to drop the column requiring a person to provide information on his race in official forms....


Click on link to read report on The Star.