龍門國中英語資優專區

多元文化的國家—馬來西亞

對某些台灣人來說，馬來西亞可能是一個充滿野生動物的大叢林。偉立老師說，有些人甚至誤以為當地人是「住在樹屋上的野蠻人」，至少我從來沒那樣想。事實上，馬來西亞大部分的地區為城鎮或城市。沒有熱帶雨林，沒有猴子，沒有食人魚，只有水泥製成的建築。老師告訴我們有許多種族共同生活在馬來西亞，例如：馬來人、印度人、華人、原住民……等。由於這些族群有各自的文化，以致當地一年中有許多節日。我多麼希望能生活在一個經常放假的國家！但只要一想到會有說各種語言的同學，不禁讓人懷疑要如何與彼此溝通？或許這就是馬來西亞人擁有很強的語言能力的緣故。在這堂課前，我以為只有台灣能被稱做「水果王國」，但當我看到這麼多叫不出名字的水果，才恍然大悟自己對東南亞的了解是如此淺薄。如果下次還有機會能去馬來西亞，我想嘗嘗看那些不明的水果，並和台灣的做比較。我同時也可以學到不同種族的文化，並啟發我對亞洲不明地帶的知識。

A Multicultural Country—Malaysia

To some Taiwanese, Malaysia may be a big jungle which full of wild animals.  Teacher Wei Li said that some people even mistook the native as “the barbarians live in tree houses”; at least I’ve never had that kind of thought.  Actually, most of the places in Malaysia are towns or cities.  No rainforest, no monkeys, no piranha, only buildings made of concrete. The teacher told us that there are many races live together in Malaysia, such as Malaysian, Indian, Chinese, aboriginal, and so on.  Because these races have their own cultures, there are many holidays in a year.  How I wish to live in a country that have vacations all the time!  But at the thought of having classmates that speak different languages, I wonder how are we going to communicate?  Maybe that’s the reason why the people in Malaysia always have strong language skills. Before the lesson, I thought Taiwan is the only country that can be called “The Kingdom of fruit”, but as I saw so many kinds of fruit that I didn’t even know their names, I suddenly discovered how little I know about Southeast Asia.  If I have chance to go to Malaysia again, I would like to try those unknown fruits and compare with Taiwan’s.  I also can learn many cultures from different races, and explore my knowledge of the unknown part of Asia.