Microaggression and Diversity: Tracing Indonesian University Students’ Attitudes toward Pluralism through Metaphorical Creative Expressions

Akun, Andreas; Andreani, Wiwik

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“…Metaphor helps to communicate complicated-even conventionally inexpressible-ideas in a simple symbolic expression, expressing huge ideas or a lot of information succinctly, and summarizing comprehensive image or representation of event or idea into a single expression. Thus, functionally, "metaphor enables someone to more accurately communicate an unclear, ambiguous, or even contradictory idea in a single expression" [17].…”

Section: Metaphormentioning

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Unbridled Sharing Culture and Unhealthy Narcissim as Reflected in Cebong and Kampret Poetic Metaphors

Akun¹,

Andreani²

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This article is an attempt to reflect the revolutionizing sharing culture of digital social media in Indonesian context. The method used in this research is textual qualitative studies of the textual poetic expressions chosen from two young and current poetry writers as to get the sense of nowness and connectedness to the issue. Lacan's concept of metaphor is used in elaborating the poetic expressions as to reveal the psychological explanations of the culture. The study concludes that beyond the irresistible practice of social media sharing culture lie the unhealthy narcistic and self-justified loving-hating culture of constructing truth, at the same time disregarding critical thinking and common sense. Social media have sophisticatedly fostered grouping and sharing culture where members are unconsciously and politically justified to produce their own version of truth which can be totally against the other groups' version, forgetting that both belong to the same Indonesia's humanity group. Fortunately, a solution is offered by loving Indonesia, the greatest metaphor of unity in diversity where love is supposed to navigate differences without hatred.

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Section: Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%

Unbridled Sharing Culture and Unhealthy Narcissim as Reflected in Cebong and Kampret Poetic Metaphors

Akun¹,

Andreani²

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…Besides, limited studies were reported on racial microaggression from the Asian context in past literature. Thus far, a few of such studies had been conducted in Malaysia (Lino, 2010;Lino, Hashim, & Ricardo, 2017), Taiwan (Fan & Ni, 2013), Japan (Yamada & Yusa, 2014), and Indonesia (Akun & Andreani, 2016). One possible explanation for the limited studies on racial microaggression in Malaysia or Asia is the novelty of the concept.…”

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Racial Microaggression in Multicultural Malaysia: Ethnic-specific Experience of University Students

Lino

Hashim

2019

J Ethn Cult Stud

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Contemporary studies on racial microaggression in Southeast Asian countries, particularly those that take into account the experience of people from different ethnic groups, are limited. As such, the current study focused on racial microaggression experience amongst Malaysian university students from different ethnic groups. A sample of 40 university students was recruited through purposive and snowball sampling strategies. The participants comprised of nine ethnic Malays, 10 ethnic Chinese, 10 ethnic Indians, seven ethnic groups from East Malaysia and four of mixed-parentage. A qualitative method using semi-structured individual interviews was utilized. Responses/verbatim from the interviews were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method. Results indicated 11 common racial microaggression themes reported by participants across most ethnic groups, including ‘In-group benefit’ and ‘The paradox of over-scrutiny/ overlook.’ Also, five ethnic-specific themes, such as ‘Pathologizing cultural values/ communication style’ and ‘Ignorant about the situation in Sabah & Sarawak.’ The findings indicate that while there can be a shared experience of racial microaggression for people of different ethnicities, the actual themes experienced by specific ethnic groups may differ. Theoretical and practical implications include recommendations on how to address the issue in Malaysia.

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“…To be a 'so-so multiculturalist' is not good enough for a globalized citizen today. Previously, Akun and Andreani (2016) have also done a textual analysis of the students' creative poems by focusing on the negative tone of the poems. The research result shows that there are new faces of modern and subtle racism and chauvinism with their growing underground power to reject diversity, and it is apparently noticeable that beyond Indonesian pluralism reality lie these microaggressive attitudes and practices of fictitiously considering others as worse, different and the other.…”

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Navigating Diversity in Plural Indonesia

Akun

2023

Lingua Cultura

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The research aimed to show the supposedly unquestionable national slogan ‘Unity in Diversity’. It still got severe challenges today, as proven by the rise of religious, political, and psychological underpinnings of intolerance surrounding the 2019 presidential election, politically dividing Indonesian into pros or cons of NKRI (Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia or The United Nations of Indonesia). This was a reader response research of EnglishDepartment students using short stories to gather their perspectives on the role of Multicultural Literature (ML).The short stories were taken from internationally recognized authors from Indonesia, the USA, Japan, France, China, and Egypt. Questionnaires and interviews were used to intensively collect the participants’ experiences and ideas. The results of the research show that diversity problems are identified, and solutions are proposed through the literary learning curriculum design and process. It also shows the need to promote multicultural literature practice for English department students. The mastery of Multicultural Literary Competence is finally proposed as one of the golden goals of Indonesian national education, where diversity is the true color of Indonesia to easilyequip graduates to become global citizens. Today’s interconnected, globalized world has required millennials to possess CQ (Cultural Quotient) regardless of their diverse background. This CQ can effectively be cultivated through multicultural literature in a multicultural education system. Only through mastering CQ cultivated through ML are Indonesian graduates ready to enter the global and digital competition as global citizens.

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Microaggression and Diversity: Tracing Indonesian University Students’ Attitudes toward Pluralism through Metaphorical Creative Expressions

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Unbridled Sharing Culture and Unhealthy Narcissim as Reflected in Cebong and Kampret Poetic Metaphors

Unbridled Sharing Culture and Unhealthy Narcissim as Reflected in Cebong and Kampret Poetic Metaphors

Racial Microaggression in Multicultural Malaysia: Ethnic-specific Experience of University Students

Navigating Diversity in Plural Indonesia

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