Comment of Friends' Blog

I have observed 20 blogs, and this is the research result: Most of them copied articles that they had posted to Bogorchickensoup. These are the statistical result:

1. 50% wrote about Bilingualism and Muslim New Year
   
2. 45% wrote about Pilgrimage and Stereotype
3. 40% wrote abut How to eat
4. 35% wrote about Democracy
5. 25% wrote about Culture
6. 20% wrote about Minority
7. 15% wrote about New Year and Christmas
8. 10% wrote about Achilles and Word Meaning

All of them used blogspot. From the appearance, they use different template of blog. 95% of the blogs are colorful. 95% did not put their photo in their profile.
These are the address of the blogs:

1. http://Sintapuspitasari.blogspot.com
2. http://Hertidamayanti.blogspot.com
3. http://tetisusilawati.blogspot.com
4. http://srirejekiVIIA031104018.blogspot.com
5. http://dewiindriani.blogspot.com
6. http://deniellevine66.blogspot.com
7. http://avot84.blogspot.com
8. http://leoboys08-trisno.blogspot.com
9. http://nikennikadewi.blogspot.com
10. http://evienovikasari.blogspot.com
11. http://ufpratama.blogspot.com
12. http://endang-deyan-cute.blogspot.com
13. http://evieaprianti.blogspot.com
14. http://mutzonly.blogspot.com
15. http://minxdinasty.blogspot.com
16. http://azaskia85.blogspot.com
17. http://erwicute.blogspot.com
18. http://dewiakhriyantinoviana.blogspot.com
19. http://niesdiary.blogspot.com
20. http://kartinipakuan.blogspot.com

Summary of "Momma, the Dentist and Me" by Maya Angelou

"Momma, the dentist, and me" story tells about racism. It tells about
discrimination to a Negro by a white man dentist. When the Negro—the
writer—had a toothache, the dentist did not want to treat her because
she is black. I do not have experience about discrimination when I get
toothache but I had been discriminated in sport. It happened when I
was a child. My classmates were playing football and I wanted to join
them. But, they did not permit me to join the playing because I was
not as tall as them. I was the shortest boy in my class and it made me
very sad. However, when I told my mother about it, I was not sad
anymore because she told me that it was a natural thing if I was
shorter than my friends because I was younger than them.

Stereotype

Stereotype is people judgments about someone by only looking at
their physical appearance, names, age, gender, and social status. For
example, the stereotype of names. Boy consider that a girl who has a
good name is pretty. When his friend ask him to choose between Sarah or
Kokom to be his girlfriend, he will choose Sarah because he thought
that Sarah is more beautiful than Kokom. In this case, he just look at
the girls' name, whereas, Kokom might be more beautiful than Sarah. So,
it is important not to judge someone from his/her name only. The ways
to avoid stereotype are: being aware of standardized images in our
head, become suspicious of all judgements that we allow exceptions to
prove, learn to be chary of generalizations about people.

Summary of "Why 'Model Minority' doesn't Fit" by Diane Yen-Mei Wong

Diane Yen-Mei Wong told about minority. She gave an example of her
community, Asian-Americans community, as a "model minority".
Asian-Americans community is considered to be succeeded minority group
because they do not get racial discrimination anymore. However, in
fact, it doesn't like that because there are many Asian-Americans
people who still live in poverty, uneducated, and work for less, or
even, no wage. In addition, Seattle government assigned special units
to investigate Asian-Americans ' crime because there are many
crimes/violence done by Asian-Americans. In short, minority is
always discriminated. Otherwise, we should not think that minority is
harmful.

Summary of "Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles Heel" by Michael T. Kaufman

The writer tells about his prejudice and stupidity of his childhood
friend, Hector. The writer always thought that he had a better fate
than Hector. He was in special class in Junior High School but Hector
was not. He went uptown to Bronx Science while Hector went downtown to
Commerce. He became a reporter while Hector was only a longshoreman.
The fact, it was only the writer's assumption because when the writer
read a newspaper; he knew that Hector was replacing Peter Falk as an
actor. Since then, the writer realized that his thought was wrong. He
had made a stupid prejudice.

Battle of Culture

People say that child is a gift from God that we should take care it
well. A child is produced by a woman—mother—and a man—father—in a
marriage. However, many children were born before marriage today. Now,
let us see how Americans and Indonesians' perception about it.
In America, many women start their families before marriage and
before the end of their adolescence. It is not odd to have a child
before marriage and to take care a child without a father for American
women because it is not an embarrassing thing for them. Their society
would not ostracize them because of the condition. On the contrary,
Indonesian society will ostracize the women who have a child before
marriage. It is because, in Indonesia, it is considered to be an
embarrassing and bad thing. Indonesians think that a child should be
produced after marriage and he/she should have a mother and a father.
In conclusion, one thing that is considered to be an embarrassing or
a bad thing in a country can be not embarrassing and not bad in other
countries. It happens because of the different cultures. Each cultures
has a different point of view about something. Apart from that, you
have to view something by your thought, not because you are an
Indonesian or American or something else.

Bilingualism

Bilingualism is the use of two language by person to speak in his

daily conversation. I also do bilingualism, I speak Indonesian and
Sundanese in daily conversations. Both languages are used for
different situation and purpose. At home, I speak Sundanese because my
family use Sundanese to speak. I do not only speak Sundanese to my
family but also to my friends who are Sundanese. Next, I use
Indonesian language to speak to my friends in college. I also speak
Indonesian when I talk to lecturer. When I meet people who I haven't
known them, I also speak in Indonesian language because it is the
national language. However, Indonesian language that I use is not
standardized Indonesian language because it is only used in formal
situation. There is another language that I use to speak but I use it
sometimes, that is English language. I use it in my lecture when I
have to do presentation.

Everywhere's Garbage

Garbage is the easiest thing that we can find in Indonesia. Everywhere we can find garbage scattered around. It is the scenery that we can find easily in Indonesia. That is because many people forget about the use of garbage-can. It doesn't mean that there is no garbage-can in Indonesia but many people ignore it so they throw garbage everywhere they want. Many efforts had been done to make people aware to throw garbage to the garbage-can, such as attachment of slogan that said that clean is beautiful, etc, and the elucidation of the consequence if we throw garbage everywhere we want. Ironically, people still throw garbage everywhere they want. Even, under the slogan that says "Bersih itu Indah", we can see garbages scattered around under it. Throwing garbage everywhere has become our culture. it's very dolorous and dishonoring. So, could we change it, please?