JOURNAL 9: understand your culture.

Assalamualaikum =)

in the class, we did learnt about the Asma & Pedersen talk about Malaysian culture. i got many precious information during this class time. 

sometimes, we don't realize how our culture is, till someone bring it up and let us think about it. besides that, we only can understand our culture by looking and investigating others culture. what i mean is, how we want to understand it's our culture if we never see the others culture first? 

while reading what Asma & Pedersen talk about the Malaysian culture, me and my group did feel like, 'yes, this is us!' and for some negative statement like, 'Malaysian culture is more relationship than task-oriented' we did some argument and find some example in order to make ourselves clear with what we stand. from it, we start realize, yes, this is us! this is what we belong to.

basically based on what the Asma & Pedersen talk about Malaysian culture, we could agree except for 'more religious than secular'. even though majority of the Malaysian is the Muslim, to ensure that all the things that Malaysian do is based on religious matter only is cannot be seen as the completely true. 

back to the early discussion of 'more group than individual-oriented'. most of the group in the class said it is correct. and we do accept that the Malaysian normally doing thing based on what the group had agreed upon compared to what individual decision. when we talk about group-oriented, it is not guaranteed that the group is emphasizes the religious matter. there are many groups of Malaysian, do not take the religious as the main source of life.  so that the assumption of Malaysian is more religious compared to secular is cannot be accept as completely true. it is so subjective and depends on which group that the people is belong to.

in conclusion, while having this kind of activity in this class, we do feel like it is importance for each of us to understand what is the culture is all about. the best way to understand our culture is by make the comparison about us with others. by that, we can understand it clearly and correctly.

thank you for reading. ;)