I am a Javanese and Moslem boy which means it makes me as the majority in this country. Being the majority makes me get used of facing the same people of tribe and religion almost all the times. When I came to new environment, my college, I meet many different people from the different tribe and religion as me. That was my first experience of facing that many different people in my life. I was shocking at first because their view of this life is different with me. I used to feel they were strange. In my mindset I ensure myself that I was the most correct one over there.
As the time goes by, slowly I realized a lot of things about differences. I start to washed away my thinking about that I am the most correct person with the most correct point of view of this life. I realized that actually those differences are unique. The deeper I understand those things, the more interesting it is. There is no better or worse belief in this life. Each belief give the best for its adherent. No matter what it is, every belief always bans the adherent to the bad things and sues them to do the good one. So, out of the name of the belief, still all of them are correct for their own adherents.
Now, I have many kinds of friends. They are Chinese, Sundanese, Palembangnese, Christian, Hindu, and many others. I don’t make a big deal about what they believe and how this live should be for them. Out of those things, still they are my friend. I have a new view of facing differences that actually in this life human is divided just in two ways, the god one who always try to do the good things for others, and the bad one who always try to do the bad things for others.
In this third semester I have a new course namely Humanistic Studies. When I heard the name of this course, the first thing that came to my mind is that I will learn about human and the way they live their life. I expect in this course I will learn how to be able to understand others including their differences and similarities. Not only about that, I also expected I will learn how to face those things much more wisely.
nice sharing :)
ReplyDeletei'm minority in this college but i easy to interact with another,i have an advice to you, don't categorizing person by good or bad one. we are different person from different culture with different characteristics and different strange and weakness so "together we can make a difference".
Reza uses the term "majority" which is part of this course, discussed later. You have claimed that you are majority because of Moslem and Javanese. Do you think that every Moslem--as well as javanese-- has different point of view (worldview? Do you think that Java isn't singular? Which java do you represent?
ReplyDeleteYou also said "There is no better or worse belief in this life", do you think that Islam is similar to Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism? If yes, in what way?
that's good idea ,,
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Dear Pak Hatim,
ReplyDeleteWhy did I said that I'm a majority? It is because of I used to live in an environment with almost all the people are Javanese-Moslem. That is why made me feel as the majority.
And yes, Islam is same like others religion in the way it sues the adherents for doing something good and leave the bad one. I'm sure all of religions say the same.