Indonesian Youth Pledge; I am proud to be an Indonesian!
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Today Indonesia commemorate The 1928 Youth Pledge day, the day where Indonesian youth before Indonesian independence gathered and declared the pledge. As stated above, the pledge stated that Indonesian youth acknowledge one motherland, one nation, and respect the language of unity, Indonesia.
I proudly say that I am really proud being an Indonesian - trillion of reasons if you want to know why. However, recently some friends of mine question my nationalism as Indonesian. They assume that I am not proud being Indonesian since I always write my facebook status in English and I also have blog with all English articles.
Here I would like to spell out that using English with nationalism is not related to each other. Nationalism cannot be seen only from one perspective. It’s not justifiable if people judge me not nationalist just because I write down my facebook status in English or just because I put English article on my blog. That’s not fair at all I bet.
I write my status in English since I also have non-Indonesian friends who are interested to comment my status and I note down my blog articles in English as I want to improve my writing skill in English. By using English in my blog, it means that I will let everybody know about my idea in my article, not only my Indonesian friends. English is global language that must be understandable for all people.
So does it matter when I write in English? Since I was elementary school at four grades, my teacher already taught me English and nowadays, I have to deal with English in my univ for whole days in my classes.
Though I use English, I still remember Bahasa Indonesia well and even can speak it well in my daily life. Though I write my status on facebook in English, yet it means “I am proud to be an Indonesian”. Though I write this article in English, yet I write more article using Bahasa Indonesia. And though I always sing English songs, but I can still sing well Indonesian anthem, Indonesia Raya. You wanna listen?
Frankly saying, I am not that proud if I can speak or write English article. I am more proud if I can speak my traditional language –Bugis and Makassar language. I am more proud to my friends who still speak Javanese in their daily life. At present, English is something usual or common. Almost all the people can understand it.
If the people still judge me so, how can they judge my teachers and lecturers who teach me English? I do hope they don’t judge them not nationalist just because they teach Indonesian youth English.
Bravo Indonesia, Bravo Indonesian Youth, and Have Youth Pledge day.
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4 testimonial(s):
i do really really really agree wid you!
write or speak english it doesn't mean that we're not nationalist,,,
i speak english, i write in english,,, but i still appreciate and love indonesian, javanese, and many others cultures that i have,,, more than others,,,
many of your articles are humorous,,,
nice blogs,,,
:P
yeah...sometime we still face that condition in our small environment, even in a place where they call "International Program"
Thanks for the comment Meg :)
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