Posted by: Kiddo June 30, 2013
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You pose a more credible question, but you are viewing our culture from the eyes of western definition of equality and that is not fair.
Let me ask you this, what do you say to your dad? Tapai, if not hajur..right? What about a person younger to you? Timi/Ta? Why not use the same designation? Why discriminate on age? Similarly, a person in respectable position is typically addressed tapai, while counterparts are called timi. Shall we equalize that too?
You will say, hajur is used for one's own and tapai for others. You failed to go to the history of these cultures. One culture accepted "hajur" and now is in interaction with another culture who routinely addresses the first one with "tapai." I hope you agree it won't make sense to force my "Hajur" to your culture while you clearly are more comfortable with "tapai."
Do you still call it setbacks/discrimination? Please don't force every single practice you had just because we now have "democracy."
You pose a more credible question, but you are viewing our culture from the eyes of western definition of equality and that is not fair.
Let me ask you this, what do you say to your dad? Tapai, if not hajur..right? What about a person younger to you? Timi/Ta? Why not use the same designation? Why discriminate on age? Similarly, a person in respectable position is typically addressed tapai, while counterparts are called timi. Shall we equalize that too?
You will say, hajur is used for one's own and tapai for others. You failed to go to the history of these cultures. One culture accepted "hajur" and now is in interaction with another culture who routinely addresses the first one with "tapai." I hope you agree it won't make sense to force my "Hajur" to your culture while you clearly are more comfortable with "tapai."
Do you still call it setbacks/discrimination? Please don't force every single practice you had just because we now have "democracy."