National Language Bahasa Indonesia

Related to one of the essay in www.thejakartapost.com about language, thought and culture, language is one of the main component of socialization in our life. One of important factor that can unite people although they have any differences. Through the uses of language, we can share our idea and opinion about something with other people. It is one of the way to do good socialization and interact each other.
We all know that english is the international language that use in every country. It is the main language in this globalization era that can unite all people all around the world. Almost all the people use it. It is very important to have ability to speak english fluently, because english is used in a lot of part in human’s life. For example, one country want to make any relationship of economic or education withother country. Because of every country has different language, so they use english as their united language. They can understand each other and make good relationship between them.
But sometimes people prefer to speak or use english as their main langauage rather than their country’s language. It’s one of the bad effect of english usage when people are forget about their language. For example bussinessman that come from Indonesia and he has bussiness in England, he will stay there and use english as his main language to do socialization. Because of he always speaks english, when he come back to Indonesia he feel difficult to use Bahasa.
That case can happen when nationalism of that person toward their nation is less. It is all about thought, culture, language and nationalism. Language is the identity of one culture, one nationality. Language usage can show our behaviour and our personality in our life. It’s related to nationalism toward our country. As a good citizen we should proud of our language. We may to use english in our daily life to do socialization with other as long as we don’t forget about our language itself. And although we stay abroad and live there,we should keep our naionalism toward our country. Who will keep the natonalism of certain country beside it’s citizen.

Deri Siti Kusniawati
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