Minangkabau Cultural Face of Foreign Cultures

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BY KAMARDI RAIS DT PANJANG SIMULIE

Text this makes us to be on the first two sisi.Sisi recommend to look at where we stand now and what should we do in the face of foreign cultural influence. The second side requires us to recognize how far the influence of foreign culture that struck our country, especially the Minangkabau.

Indeed many people feel anxious state of the world today who are in the era of globalization or the fast growing information age. The result is a shift in values globally. In the midst of such turbulent times, many people feel too insecure to deal with that shake his hand.

Everywhere, from daksina to paksina, from the East to the maghrib, from city to village, from the field of seminars, discussions, workshops, and so people are talking about an era of globalization or the information era.

From the mouths of officials, intellectuals, and community leaders such as women, indigenous peoples, scholars, preachers, village chief or village elder, rolling the word globalization. Whether through antarpersona communication (interpersonal communications) as well as through the mass media (the modern communication).

Flow and the echoes of globalization has echoes of the things that nature has the power of traditional and resonance of the things that we view it as normative. Gaungnya Sometimes it kind of "ghost" a very frightening. Probably like a giant nightmare coming under our eyelids. Without sweat and without maximal exertion, it's easy for him to play just to be a coconut trunk pelecut or whips.

If we truly observe, many people who like to pursue a small footbridge feel insecure and nervous in such situations. Strand of the proverb reminds us that a dead penggamang fall. If we fall will dihanyutkan water stream flowing beneath. Therefore, we must square off in an effort to anticipate the globalization and the rapidly evolving information that globalization ini.Apa adult?

Era of globalization or the information age as the time of challenge, then we must provide answers to the challenge. If there would be no challenge response to the chalenge, the answer to the challenge.

I tend to see the challenge ahead. What and how to challenge it? Up to the challenge of how far it affects our culture which has become a tradition from our ancestors? Now that we know the challenge is then also investigated the attitudes and our answers.

Actually, merembesnya influence of foreign culture in our country due to swift currents of globalization and information. So, let us sit our understanding of globalization in advance. The word globalization comes from the word global. That means comprehensive, global and universal. In simple globalization we mean a state comprehensive in the world today that puts the country and people everywhere, willy-nilly, like it or not, is associated with other nations.

In development, there are global political, cultural and global economy. Now there is also global trade. In fact, according to Prof.. Dr. Emil Salim, former Minister for Development Supervision and the Environment (PPLH), is now going on the globalization of production. There is not a product which is only made in one country for example, Toyota cars, as many components made in various countries.

Progress of Science and Technology

Well, now people ask why the globalization? The cause is the world progress in science and technology. New discoveries greatly contributed to the civilization of mankind, providing convenience or facility. World or human beings deserve grateful to the scientists and technologists with the findings.

Everywhere is now occurred computerization with all its sophistication. Advances in communication make the information spread quickly. The world is now a large village, the big village, as if the state and nation without borders to each other.

People can now speak of the end of the world to the other end of the world. Increasing spread of information overflow. Wisdom of Bill Clinton's quick response to the crisis in his country far known to the villagers in our village. All events in the world, like the war in Bosnia, Cehnya, poisonous gas in Japan, a massive earthquake membuaat thousands of people die in Russia. In a lapse of time a few moments immediately known person in Limestone IX, in Sangir, South Solok, on Unggan and Holy Sumpur (inland West Sumatra). So now what effect that globalization?

Due to globalization and information era led to the development of cosmopolitan culture is culture that developed in various places in the world without selecting various types of soil, climate and so forth. We see the international youth culture, as expressed by John Naisbitt and his wife Patricia Aburdeen in his book "Mega Trends 2000". Young kids so enthusiastic exchange of food, music and fashion. "Fashion is international now," he said.

"You do not know from where a woman comes by way of dress or dress," comments designer Oscar de la Renta.

Blue Jean pants worn at the beginnings of young children in the West, people are now used in Tiumang, near Sitiung, rural West Sumatra. Even young people who are not spelled out again, now chimed in wearing Levi's.

While mothers are now hooked wear baju kurung in areas not Minang Minang. In the first case in 1970 there were complaints Minang how rare to find a girl wearing braces.

In culture dishes, Americans infatuated with sushi (Japanese cuisine), while the Japanese people to show that they have a variety of American-made confectionery. While Georgia's adventurous person ordering the octopus and eel jerky. Perhaps the fact that the world has become smaller now only for leaf or leaf merunggai Moringa (Moringa oleifera) their leaves were small and tasty to disayur and medicines.

In addition to the increasingly sophisticated telecommunications apparently a gaping wide Pacific Ocean will be conquered by technology aircraft flying from New York to Tokyo in just over two hours. Same with the bus ride from Padang to Bukittinggi. Though New York on the Atlantic coast, while Tokyo was in the Pacific Ocean.

Shifting Value

As a result of the globalization era, the era of information, advances in science and technology world tends to uniform. There was a shift in value. The things that had become a tradition of society has shifted and no longer like the first.

Many people are worried because the world has changed. Foreign cultural influences such as hunting a thief who gets in our house. The kitchen door was wide open so that the thief came in from the back of the form of colonialism in another form of colonialism which is a foreign culture

When we meditate, change for change has happened since than formerly. It turns out there's no eternal in this world. The eternal is change itself.

In the past, our ancestors supposedly Hindu and Buddhist. After Islam was introduced to this archipelago, then the changes were also made. Our ancestors embraced Islam. So was born the saying goes, Indigenous declines, syarak climb. That is down from Pariangan Padangpanjang indigenous to the area shoreline. Syarak climb from Pariaman or go up to the Siak river upstream. Initially our customary adage of Adat basandi Alua, Alua basandi possible and turned into Indigenous basandi patuik syarak, Syarak basandi Kitabullah.

When we invaded the Netherlands in the 19th century is also growing anxiety among the public. At that time the tradition so people can not handle properly implemented due to the command in the colonial era sweatshop.

Rodi means command. Origin of order, a kind of forced labor colonies carried the people to make the highway. Suspense Minangkabau people at that time expressed by sebait rhyme:

Formerly rabab batangkai nan

Now coffee nan babungo

Previously customary bapakai nan

Now corvee nan paguno

However, our ancestors that can not be very wise not, change will happen in this world. Traditional divided four types: Traditional indigenous savanna nan, nan diadatkan customs, mores, and customs teradat nan.

Traditional rituals are Sunnatullah nan savanna, naturwet or natural law. Laws of nature will not change because it is a natural law that applies in the creation of Allah SWT. Basically the teachings of the mind (morality), helping, deliberation as the basis of democracy, humanity and sense of togetherness or cooperativeness is an Islamic religious teachings into the joints of Minangkabau adat.

Nan kuriak iyolah kundi

Red Nan iyolah sago

Nan iyolah good reason

Iyolah beautiful meatball

Barek sapikua, lightweight sajinjiang

(Please help)

samo kabukik mandaki,

lurah samo ka manurun,

samo malompek broken,

samo manyuruak bungkuak

(Togetherness or cooperativeness).

Sitting basamo balapang-field,

dudak surang basampik-sampik.

Aia ka Bulek pambuluah,

ka Kato bulak consensus (democracy).

Everything is universal and represents the basic values of Minangkabau adat (traditional customary nan savanna).

About customary diadatkan nan, nan indigenous customs and teradat including the instrumental values, both used in general, and specifically within the village as the implementation of the rule of customary adat nan savanna. From the description I conclude the following:

1.       Cultural values and customs that developed is our traditional values are universal. There's no way we are bolstering the narrow or wearing clothes that saggy pants. It means we will not return as former completely, but our basic values will not be shifted one bit.

2.      In the preservation of tradition and culture of the Minangkabau need all parties involved, such as "stove Tigo sajarangan" (niniak mamak, scholars and scholars) and the role of governments and all relevant agencies.

3.      Pass on traditional values and culture of the Minangkabau to the young generation should start early through local curriculum in schools, boarding schools, and all existing education space.

4.      The role of culture and custom by the exemplary parents and Furnaces Tigo Sajarangan according to customary fatwa, "lap children, guided nephew." Can be interpreted as a personal duty of a father (personal) dual function: to guide his son and nephew's lap. Thus, each component is basically a younger generation of cultural heritage from her father and mother and from mamaknya.

5.      Wirid-wirid or instruction-instruction in indigenous villages, in villages, village and town have switched on, both by custom and stakeholders ninik mamak Nagari Adat density .*