The Malay Worldview
MOHD TALHA IDRUS
sumatran+indian+chinese+arab+filipina = MELAYU!
what the big deal about a MELAYU?
* like other races - no BIG DEAL..!!
* every other living organism are genetically distinguished into species!!
orang melayu=orang putih=orang hitam=aztec=mongolian=inuit=american=persian=anasaki=turk=kurd=atak, etc.....
all are of the SAME SPECIES....human, homo sapiens.!
WHO IS MELAYU?
sejarah melayu = people originating from SRI WIJAYA ( ORANG JAWI)
= people originating from Yunan Province , South China
( WESTERN HISTORIAN).
like other races, they have acclimed to a particular locality and they develop their own CULTURE!
what is CULTURE?
* culture is the beliefs and behaviour characteristics of a particular group of people.
* the uniqueness of the culture is BIG DEAL!
* growing vocabulary, language, communication, intellectualism.
CULTURE = from Latin Cultura > meaning of cultivate.
* achievements expressed intellectually through everyday arts ( food,press,craftmanship)
* its not the FOOD of the MALAYS but the beliefs system about the FOOD!
TASAWWUR MELAYU best understood through the gateway of their language, BAHASA MELAYU!
BAHASA MELAYU!
* has developed from animistic worldview to Hindu-Buddhistic to Muslim.
* Islam has broadened their worldview from Raja to Sultan.
* with it also Daulat ( sovereignity ), Maqam ( station ), Ta'at ( loyalty ).
* old habits die hard - Parameswari, putra_putri, nagra, muntri,parolang,sri,paduka.
The world around them has hardened into DUNIA and ALAM and SARWA'ALAM.
english equivalent = world/worlds.
****SAYANG is different from KASIH is different from CINTA.
develop its own beauty!!
THEIR LANGUAGE AND WELTAANSCHAUNG HAS DEVELOPED FROM ANIMISTIC TO HINDU-BUDDHISTIC TO MUSLIM!!
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