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Abstract-The business sector can become a profitable venture and improve one's economic status remarkably. In Malaysia, the society's participation in business, whether in small enterprises like grocery, or large scale industries like construction, is largely controlled by the Chinese community than the Malays. Based on previous research, the domination by the Chinese is due to their assumed expertise in the field, as they are considered to possess shrewd business acumen inherited from their ancestors. This is different from the Malays whose economic activities were more concentrated on farming, livestock breeding, and petty trades compared to large scale business sectors. If there were Malays involved in big-scale businesses, they usually involve Malays from the upper crust of society. Therefore, the study aims to analyze the issue from a new perspective, by focusing on the effects of civilizational value on an ethnic's dominance in the business sector. From the study, it was found that both ethnics inherit contrasting civilizational values and the differences have affected the ethnics' achievement in the business sector. In order to achieve the study's objectives, the text analysis method was applied.Index Terms-The Malay ethnic, the Chinese ethnic, business dominance, value system, civilizational perspective.

This study is an attempt to develop an index on ethnic tolerance among the Malay, Chinese and Indian undergraduate students of three Malaysian public universities. It focuses on three main domains: religious practices, ethnic‒cross relationship and governance. The data of 378 respondents were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) software version 22. The calculation and the measurement of the index are based on the method and equations used in calculating the index among Malaysian youths in 2015 that were capable of incorporating many domains. All the domains are significant in contributing to ethnic tolerance the composite index value of 4.13 out of 5 was obtained which shows the students are at the level of highly tolerant.

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This article deliberated on the concept of muhibah and its application as a means to foster harmony in the Malaysian pluralistic society comprising mainly the Malays, Chinese and Indians. Given the multiracial, multicultural and multireligous background, the study acknowledges the need to protect one’s heritage and cultural traits which are necessarily connected to the question of right and freedom as the Malaysian citizen. The questions at hands, how is it possible to inculcate muhibah in the face of multiple claims to right and freedom. The article will therefore focus on the two issues pertain to right which are the right to freedom of religion and the right to language. The analysis is qualitative in nature and it relied upon library research for data collection. The article adopts textual analysis method for data analysis. The findings show that despite its historical relevance and practicality, implementing muhibah has been very challenging in Malaysia. This is due the pressing demand from particular ethnic and religion, to preserving their cultural trait. It is therefore concluded that the success of muhibah is a reciprocal process. It can be achievable if every ethnic group in Malaysia have trust and respect for the national policy such as muhibah and therefore willing to work together in realizing the policy.