Ethnic Tolerance Among Students in Malaysian Public Universities

DOI

10.2991/ceed-18.2018.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tolerance; Ethnic Tolerance; Public Universities; Students

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to determine the level of ethnic tolerance among students in Malaysian public universities. The study involved 378 respondents from three public research universities and represented by three major ethnics, the Malays, Chinese and Indians. The research utilized quantitative method and the data were collected through a set of questionnaire, based upon ethnic tolerance concept developed by past researchers. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22. The findings reveal that in general the level of tolerance among the students is satisfactorily high. Meanwhile, the Malay students were found to have the tolerant level of 83.0%, followed by the Indians with 71.4%, and the Chinese with 67.5%.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zulkernain Nur Farahana
AU  - Wan Husin Wan Norhasniah
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Ethnic Tolerance Among Students in Malaysian Public Universities
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Education and Economic Development (CEED 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 6
EP  - 10
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ceed-18.2018.2
DO  - 10.2991/ceed-18.2018.2
ID  - NurFarahana2018/12
ER  -