This document describes a study conducted to understand Malaysian perceptions of interracial relationships. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods, including observing the races of people sitting together on trains and surveying participants about their preferences and social circles. The results found that most participants preferred to socialize and partner with others of their own race. The average participant was also single, between 19-24 years old, and had friends that were 95% of their own race.

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE
PROJECT
• The purpose of this project is to study about how/what is the
opinion/reaction/perception of the Malaysian society towards
interracial relationship.
• Interracial relationship in this case refers to not only the
relationship between two opposite genders, but also the
relationship towards the same genders as well as towards
different ages, towards other races than theirs.

2. In this project, we can relate it more towards quantitative
than qualitative simply because we can calculate the number of
participants and can estimate the result with an average
calculation.

3. INTRODUCTION TO THE
EXPERIMENT
• Our experiment was conducted to study and understand the
perception of the Malaysian society towards culture other than
theirs
• Some people are afraid to communicate with other races. This is
because of some factors that made them what they are :

4. - The environment/society that they grow up in
- Level of education
- Judge too fast
- Too much influence by the social media
- Exposure to the outside world

5. HOW TO RUN THE EXPERIMENT

6. • At least two members of our group is holding a camera in his/her
hand
• Wait for the train to stop at the next station
• Once the train stopped and the doors are opened, start aiming
for a target
• After target acquired, start the recorder and follow them to where
they sit
• Analyze on whether they sit with the same race, gender or age
difference.

7. RESULT FROM THE
EXPERIMENT
Involving persons of different races mostly will choose to sit with
their races, cohabitation, sexual relations or marriage.
Racist
Non Racist
20
29
Sexist
Non Sexist
45
5
Couple
Non Couple
13
2

8. RESULT FROM THE SURVEY
*EXPLANATION BASED ON THE
FINAL REPORT

9. 1.Age of participants
<18
19-24
25-29
29-34
35-39
>40
ANALYSIS: Average age of participants involved in this survey is
teenagers between 19-24 years old.

10. 2.Status of participants
3%
1%
28%
68%
single
in relationship
married
others
ANALYSIS: Most of the participants involved in this survey are single.

11. 3.Percentage of races in participants’ friends
Chinese
95% same race
50% same race
Indian
25% same race
95% same race
50% same race
25% same race
25% same race
95% same race
Malay
50% same race
Others
95% same race
50% same race
25% same race
ANALYSIS: Probably most of the participants’ friends are 95% same race with them.

12. 4.Preference of skin color by the participants
Dark
Brown
Light
Brown
Others
Indian
Malay
Chinese
Yellow
White
0
10
20
30
40
50
ANALYSIS: Most of the Chinese people prefer their partner to have yellow s.c.
While Indian and Malay participants prefer their partner to have Light brown and Dark brown s.c.

13. 5.Preference of country in choosing partner
45
South East Asia
Asia
Europe
North America
South Ameica
Others
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Chinese
Malay
Indian
Other
ANALYSIS: Most of the Chinese participants prefer Asian partners.

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