Let me continue my writing about Minangkabau. It is the second writing. (For the first one, please visit What do you know about Minangkabau? )In this session, I'll discuss about how Minangkabau's society lived. It won't be discussed exactly for every body. I'll talk generally.
Like other ethnics in Indonesia, Minangkabau is also unique. It has owned typical stuff. Minangkabau people are known by others in their habit of going abroad. As result, there must be Minangkabau people all around of Indonesia. What do they do? Public also know them by their habit of trading.
People know Minangkabau because of many restaurant in Indonesia which menyajikan Minangkabau typical food such as rendang, ayam balado, dendeng batokok, etc. You must know that rendang is one of international food.
What makes Minangkabau people wanna go abroad around Indonesia even around the world? It comes from their characteristic which cannot give up to what condition they deal with. Whatever problems they get, there is embarrassment to sigh. They always want to solve the problems by their ability even they have to go to other place.
Hence, they should own certain abilities in their life which have to gotten since they were teenagers. In Minangkabau folklore, there are three abilities that people should own before facing a lot of challenges. What are they? They are sewing, cooking and self-defending by Minangkabau traditional martial art. It will be their provisions to be strong in life with no sigh.
You can see that story in Merantau film which is starred by Iko Uwais who also starred The Raid 1 and 2. Iko Uwais as the main actor showed that young boy from Minangkabau always wanna go abroad from his hometown to get better life. However, getting better he has to be prepared well. At least, he owned one of the three abilites, he owned self-defending ability. Rightly, the ability was useful for him to get better life and to learn more about how to get the best one.
Some friends asked me why Minangkabau people are generally able to do trading. I answered that I don't know exactly. In my opinion, trading is just a derivative from well speaking way. I mean, Minangkabau culture gives lessons to people in speaking way. Speaking way is one of the ways of communication to other people.
For your information, there are four ways of communication in Minangkabau culture. There are kato mandaki (go-up words), kato manurun (go-down words), kato mandata (go-flat words) and kato malereang (go-slope words). Kato mandaki is used in communicating to older like parents, kato manurun is used in communicating to younger like parents to child or older brother to younger, kato mandata is used in communicating to the same age guys, and kato malereang is used in communicating to certain special persons in Minangkabau who is respected.
That ways teach Minangkabau people to speak carefully. It must not randomly in order to make people respect. In my humble opinion, these stuff make people able to speak well to another person. It stimulates the ability to persuade other persons about something, includes offering a product. That also influenced predecessors who fighted in Indonesia. Let see, some of them are Tan Malaka, Mohammad Hatta, Agus Salim, Buya Hamka, etc. They lead people's mind to get freedom and to move in some great ways.
This is the sequel of the previous discourse. There will be so many more I can discuss to you all. Be waiting, and thanks for reading.
Like other ethnics in Indonesia, Minangkabau is also unique. It has owned typical stuff. Minangkabau people are known by others in their habit of going abroad. As result, there must be Minangkabau people all around of Indonesia. What do they do? Public also know them by their habit of trading.
People know Minangkabau because of many restaurant in Indonesia which menyajikan Minangkabau typical food such as rendang, ayam balado, dendeng batokok, etc. You must know that rendang is one of international food.
What makes Minangkabau people wanna go abroad around Indonesia even around the world? It comes from their characteristic which cannot give up to what condition they deal with. Whatever problems they get, there is embarrassment to sigh. They always want to solve the problems by their ability even they have to go to other place.
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You can see that story in Merantau film which is starred by Iko Uwais who also starred The Raid 1 and 2. Iko Uwais as the main actor showed that young boy from Minangkabau always wanna go abroad from his hometown to get better life. However, getting better he has to be prepared well. At least, he owned one of the three abilites, he owned self-defending ability. Rightly, the ability was useful for him to get better life and to learn more about how to get the best one.
Some friends asked me why Minangkabau people are generally able to do trading. I answered that I don't know exactly. In my opinion, trading is just a derivative from well speaking way. I mean, Minangkabau culture gives lessons to people in speaking way. Speaking way is one of the ways of communication to other people.
For your information, there are four ways of communication in Minangkabau culture. There are kato mandaki (go-up words), kato manurun (go-down words), kato mandata (go-flat words) and kato malereang (go-slope words). Kato mandaki is used in communicating to older like parents, kato manurun is used in communicating to younger like parents to child or older brother to younger, kato mandata is used in communicating to the same age guys, and kato malereang is used in communicating to certain special persons in Minangkabau who is respected.
That ways teach Minangkabau people to speak carefully. It must not randomly in order to make people respect. In my humble opinion, these stuff make people able to speak well to another person. It stimulates the ability to persuade other persons about something, includes offering a product. That also influenced predecessors who fighted in Indonesia. Let see, some of them are Tan Malaka, Mohammad Hatta, Agus Salim, Buya Hamka, etc. They lead people's mind to get freedom and to move in some great ways.
This is the sequel of the previous discourse. There will be so many more I can discuss to you all. Be waiting, and thanks for reading.
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