The word “others” can
be defined in many ways. Here I define “others” as everyone around me who has
different identity. I am going to share how I toward others (the diversity around
me). I do not have to and should not be confused how toward others when I am in
homogeny environment. I just could have a look into myself how toward well. It
is different when I live in heterogenic environment (culture, ethics,
religion). It is not enough to just have a look into my own. I have to overcome
everything from some perspective. I have been living for 19 years. It means I
have already found many characteristic of anyone around me. It will be so wide and far if I tell
generally, so I just want to focus on my attitude, interaction and
communication during I am studying in my campus (Sampoerna School f Education).
Firstly I will tell my
personal identity to show you my background and perception or way of thinking
toward the diversity. I am a Muslimah. My family is religious family. I had
been in Islamic school since I was in kindergarten (TK Islam) to senior high
school (Madrasah Aliyah). I used to breathe the Islamic air. I already know how
to behave when I am among Islamic environment, because I am accustomed to be
there.
Secondly is the point
of this writing. It is “How I toward others in diversity”. Diversity is not
only in religion. Culture is one of diversity also. In SSE, I find many
cultures which I never found before. There are some friends who come from
Papua, Medan, Bali, Kalimantan and NTT (even Jakarta) and of course they come
with their own culture. I am already
familiar with Sundanese and Javanese, but not for those all I mentioned. Before
I come to Jakarta for studying here, I had some assumption about what I would
meet and find in my new campus. I thought there would be many friends who are
from overseas (out of Java). These were my thinking at that time:
