Multicultural me...

It's a 5 days late greetings:

Guys, met lebaran. Di momen yang penuh kasih ini, gue ingin minta maaf dan memaafkan.

That's all.

Forgive me if i've ever been rude, annoying, mean, being a bitch, the devil, or being any evil in any shapes and forms.. my bad ;)

Meskipun gue officially tidak merayakan lebaran (coz i'm not a muslim tho), somehow gue ngerasa lebaran itu udah jadi bagian dari kebudayaan orang indonesia. As u know, indonesia adalah negara perpenduduk muslim terbesar, wajar lah kalo lebaran udah jadi ritual tahunan masyarakat kita (yang anehnya di Arab sono tidak dirayakan sehebat disini).

Besides, many close people i live with are moslems. My best friends, many of them are moslems. My mother's family: cousins, aunts, uncles. They're all moslems.

It's just that spending almost everyday with them makes me get used to with what so called "moslem culture" (like jilbab, sunnah, wudhu, sholat, puasa, jumatan, and the [oftenly irrelevant, coincidentall] use of expressions such as "Astaghfirullah", "Alhamdulillah", "Assalamualaikum", and lots other which some of them claimed as "religion attribute" rather than "middle east culture"). Anyway, i'm not gonna discuss this further.

I just want to share with you guys that for me being a non-moslem, living with this big moslem culture in Indonesia is such a great thing. We'll learn what so called "toleransi", "hormat-menghormati", "bhinneka tunggal ika", or what so ever those ppkn things.

It's a multicultural world we live in. And i'm happy i can taste all of those great culture. East meet west..

Haha, yep, i think i have tasted every culture:

• american (got these mostly from TV haha, cool vocabs and slang phrases)
• chinesse culture (sd-smp gue di batam yang banyak cinanya, and gue jadi bisa dikit2 bahasa hokkian yea rite),
• african-american (yo shorty, wassup? damn ye got ma bitch ya'll kno wad im sayin'? haha, whatever)
• Dari agama: yah, yang tadi itu. Besides, di Indonesia agamanya ada 5. Cool huh?

and lots culture influences from indonesia's heritage itself:

• Batak (it's in my blood, duh!) Well, i don't know exactly all A-to-Z from batak people, but i sure know some things :) Bangga jadi orang batak! haha
• Jawa (hmm... apa ya? sodara gue ada sih yang jawa, temen gue juga banyak yang jewes. It's just like for me, kebudayaan jawa is strongly connected to many aspect of many indonesian people, such as: masakan jawa, nama-nama orang indonesia juga kebanyakan ke"jawa-jawa"an meskipun bukan orang jawa. Contoh: budi hartono, sulastri, mimin, maman, momon, dsb)
• Padang (Hmm.. mungkin karena nantulang gue banyak yang padang, n temen2 juga banyak yang padang kali ya? Jadinya rada2 tau deh kultur orang padang. And moreover, masakan padang!! It's like a trademark of Indonesian's cuisine haha)
• Hmm.. apalagi ya?? Yah banyaklah, kayaknya gue tau hampir semua ciri khas semua suku di indonesia. Mmm.. bugis people, bahasa belitong, bahasa melayu, masakan menado, madura, tari bali, nyinden2an, manortor, haha banyak lah.. Bhinneka Tunggal Ika! yea rite...

yah, multikultural banget hidup kita ini ya? beda-beda, jadi asik.. Kalo sama semua, apalagi kalo dominan semua.. ngg... kayaknya monoton deh. ga asik ah.. Hoho

bye2