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Chinese Museum

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Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
Phone:
+60 82-258 388

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
Monday9am - 4:45pm
Tuesday9am - 4:45pm
Wednesday9am - 4:45pm
Thursday9am - 4:45pm
Friday9am - 4:45pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The Malaysian Chinese consist of people of full or partial Chinese—particularly Han Chinese—ancestry who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia. The great majority of this group of people are descendants of those who arrived between the early 19th century and the mid-20th century. They are traditionally dominant in the business sector of the Malaysian economy.Malaysian Chinese form the second largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world, after Thailand. Within Malaysia, they represent the second largest ethnic group after the ethnic Malay majority. They are usually simply referred to as Chinese in Malaysia, Orang Cina in Malay, Sina-karan in Tamil, and Huaren or Huaqiao by Chinese themselves. Most of the Chinese in Malaysia are of Min , Yue and Hakka speaking ancestry, and different towns and cities in Malaysia may be dominated by different Chinese dialects among Chinese speakers, for example Cantonese in Kuala Lumpur and Hokkien in Penang; Mandarin however is now also widely used. Culturally, most Malaysian Chinese have maintained their Chinese heritage, including their various dialects, although the descendants of the earliest Chinese migrants who arrived from the 15th to 17th centuries have assimilated aspects of the Malay culture, and they form a distinct subethnic group known as the Peranakan, or Baba-Nyonya.The Chinese population in Malaysia has been consistently declining percentage-wise since Malayan independence, from 37.6% in 1957 to 24.6% in 2010 and 21.4% in 2015. This is partially due to a lower birthrate as well as a high level of emigration in recent decades. According to a report by the World Bank, the Malaysian diaspora around the world in 2010 numbered at around a million, with most of them ethnic Chinese, and the main reasons for emigrating are better economic and career prospects abroad as well as a sense of social injustice within Malaysia. The large number of emigrants, many of whom are young and highly educated, resulted in a significant problem of brain drain in Malaysia.
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