Position Paper 5

Name :ILI KAIYISAH BT MUHAMMAD KAMAL
Matric No : 0720266

Counselors Are the Key to the Success of 1Malaysia Concept.

One Malaysia is a concept that our prime minister stand for. Datuk seri Najib Tun Razak spoke out loud about his hope to unite al nation in one roof. As we all know Malaysia is one of the multicultural country and to be more unite, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hope that “One Malaysia” concept will come true and success. All counselors have the key to unite other? Why? This is because they learned how to unite them. They learned about other culture, value and norm. They have to adapt with other races and most important thing is it is their job, this is their field. All counselors had been though about multiculturalism, taught about awareness, sensitivity, and so on. Awareness is one of the key elements that the counselor should master before guiding other people. Counselor must have awareness in term of the influences of other culture, heritage on client experiences, attitudes, values, and behaviours. Counselors have specific comprehensive knowledge of the culture affects ones definition of normality and the process of the counseling. Cultural sensitivity is not limited to one group but applies to all cultures.

Now, we focus how counselors to instill “One Malaysia” concept to all generation. First, when we want to teach something new or present new syllabus, whose are the perfect target to promote it? Of course children and teenagers because they the one who observe and absorb all new information well. Counselors as the role model, do something that shows that we care about other races. Counselors always talk good about other races and being moderate to them especially to teachers and staffs at school. Ask them about their festive and invite them to join events at schools even thought the even sometimes for religion purpose. Another example, in the counseling session, if the Indian student felt down when other keep insulted him in front of people, we as the counselors must consult him and the other student that bullying him. Every problem in the world must have solutions; we have to be wise to search for a good solution.

Moreover, beside awareness, counselors should have high sensitivity about other culture values, norms, attitude, and behavior and so on. When we as a Malay think that shaking hand with opposite sex is wrong, but other culture maybe does not care about it, it not against their values. Must bear in our mind do not put them in our values but must understand and respect their values and ours too. For example, in Chinese culture, if one of their relative die, there will be a car that brings the body to the grave yard, before their reach the graveyard, they will play loud music along the way to the grave, as Malay and a Muslim, how we act? Hence, as counselor, we should instill sensitivity among the student so that, the student will know to respect other culture. We can make a program such as every Monday there will be a story telling from very races of student in that school. The student will tell others about what is the interest event that happened in their own life or legendary story in their culture such as about indian wedding, Hang Tuah and so on.

In conclusion, counselor is the key role to make sure that One Malaysia because they can instill the “One Malaysia” values to all society. They can implement certain program and group counseling to make sure that the students know what is One Malaysia is all about.