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How do I define my identities? Actually, identity is not merely
about my name only, but also covers my life. In example my identities are a
child of my parents, a student of SSE, a Moslem, an Indonesian, and soon. Every
part of my identities has its own place, for example when I am as a child of my
parents, my main place is in my own home because I can do everything there,
such as eating as much as I want, sleeping, using short pants and many more.
On
the other hand, when I am as a student in SSE, “my place” is SSE campus itself.
Our lecturers are like our parents, so they have a responsibility of me (but,
someone who has to be the most responsible of myself is me). In campus, I have
to act differently like what I do in my home because my Identity as a child
doesn’t occur, but my parents still have a responsibility as the 3rd
person after myself and my lectures, so where ever we stand up, we may have
double or even triple identities, but only some identities which dominate.
Talking about Identity among the others means that people have
their own identities. We may have the same Identity with them, such as a child
of our parents, a student of SSE, but we also may have the different identity
like as a Moslem, Christian, and soon. Gathering with people who have different
identities is an ordinary thing in our daily life, but how I overcome it? Let
say in SSE, consists of four religions; Moslem, Christian, Catholic, and Hindu. For
now, the amount of Moslem is more than the others. I am a Moslem that has some
friends who have a different religion.
How do I communicate my Identities among
others? I do respect them. Even I am a part of majority, but it does not mean I
can dominate the environment because somehow we will face the same thing as a
minority. For example in the last Teaching Experience, some of my Moslem
friends assigned to Christian’s schools. I just imagined how if I assigned to
go to there too, being a Moslem who is surrounded by Christian is a kind of
minority. Should I do not pray in there? Will they forbid me to pray? Or will they
ask me to follow their activities for praying by their way? Of course no
because they respect me, so the key is RESPECT. If we need a respect from the
others, we just need to respect them. By respect to each other, it can solve
about minority and majority.
Finally, that’s my reflection about my identities among the
others. Actually, I emphasized to respect to each other because it’s for my
learning even it does not always as easy as we say, so let’s respect to each
other to get their respect on ourselves. (:
