I don’t know what to make of this Star report but you can help me:
Survey: Many youngsters aren’t concerned about racial integration
By SIMRIT KAUR
PETALING JAYA: Racial integration among the younger generation in Malaysia still has some way to go, judging by the results of a nationwide survey of 4,400 Form Four students.
Only 52% of the teenagers said they had a friend of a different race.
In fact, mixing with other races was not something that concerned many of the respondents. Only 12.8% felt that it was an issue, while 63.9% were more worried about contracting a disease (…by associating with people of other races? shitty writing. -ed).
The Cognitive and PsychoSocial Profile of Malaysian Adolescents (CoPs) study was carried out in August by a group of academics from the Education Faculty of Universiti Malaya (UM).
Prof John Arul Phillips, a former UM academic and current dean of the Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at Open University Malaysia, said this was the most complete study of its kind because of the large sampling.
“We went to 44 schools in rural areas, towns and cities across Malaysia, including Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.
K, I dunno how 44 schools is a large sampling but maybe for an itty bitty country it is? There’s a bit more data reported in the rest of the article but go read only if you feel like facepalming repeatedly and/or ruin your weekend.