The Influence of Heredity on the Malay Race.
1. Topic This article was written by Mahathir Mohamad M.D. This article is an informative text which highly concerns about the how Malay people practice their marriage and the heredity influence. Malayan people inherit a weak ancestry because of a few reasons. This situation may cause a negative long-term effect on them. 2. ontent This article covers the factors and reasons that influence the heredity among Malayan people that cause a few bad effects on them. The Malays do think of the inter marriage is not the best things to do as they want purebred and the habit of marrying at early age had resulted on generations with minds which are not fully developed. Their evaluation on the !unmarried" status also may cause them to a bad descendant growth. #. $ource The article is taken from a book written by Mahathir Mohamad M.D. This book had become such a controversial as this book had offended many Malayan people especially Malayan %atriots. The tittle of the book is !The Malay Dilemma" and was published in 1&'(. ). *udience The article is written for general audience especially to the Malayan people who are very narrow minded about intern marriage as they don+t even realise about the condition of their very own generation. ,rom this article it was written that M alayan people are inferior and being labelled as poor heredity. heredity. The audience audience is informed by the author the Malay race+s race+s mind should be broaden and think out of the box. . /het /hetor oric ical al ,un ,unct ctio ion n The text is written to inform the audience especially to Mala y people about how Malayan people despise intern marriage because of irrelevant irrelevant things instead of relevant things. Due to their perception on the marriage the Malayan people will think that intern marriage is a thing that they need to get away from as if intern marriage is a fearsome horror and makes their own generation to suffer the conse0uences. t can be proven by one of a phrase which said !The weak heredity of genetics and values3 which was inherited by the Malay youth today contributes to the increasing social problems." 4. %urpose The purpose of the article is to inform the audience about the heredity problem among Malay community and how it affects the race+s generation. The writer provides three main factors to strengthen for what he claimed in the article and convince the audience that those factors may lead to long term effects on the race itself. '. %erspe spective ive The author believed that the ancestry of the same bloodline may put the Malay race in a miserable state in the future if they keep on practising what the y claimed right. *s *s for the proof there+s a 0uote where
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The article positioned the factors that the writer proposed as why most Malay students can+t perform very well in their study.
&. mpact The effect of this article is it will make the audience some audience think wisely about marriage but there are also some people who are offended by this article as it suggested things that are against Malayan culture. The article explained that Malayan people should be married to other races which is good for the Malay themselves but then the article also tells the audience that Malayan people are weak. 1(. 6isual 7iteracy The photo is significant to the text because it s hows a proof that the Malay youth inherit a weak heredity. The reader may see a dead baby was found in a dumpster bag. The figure looks like the baby was a new born baby as it i s about a feet tall and naked. The photo also included with a caption at the bottom of the photo which said !*8*9D:9;D" further elaboration. This photo will send a message to the reader thus explain more about the article itself.
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