Madurese Culture

Madurese community known to have a distinctive culture, unique, stereo-typical, and stigmatik. Cultural identity is considered as a generalized description of individual and communal identity in the ethnic Madurese behave and Bohemian. Their life at home and in overseas often brings, and he always understood by other ethnic communities on the ground, he’s collective identity. Consequently, it is not uncommon among those treated socially and culturally, he is physically and / or psychic, he is seen to be unjust, even disproportionate and out of the ordinary.

Various descriptions of the absurd behavior of the Madurese used to be said and shown, he for example, in forums of intellectual community (well-educated), he confirmed the generalization that the more the thrill of their identity in shades of subordinated, terhegemonik, and te -ralienasi from, Äúpentas culture, Äù various other ethnic groups as the elements forming the national culture. Even if every ethnicity has the characteristic as a communal identity, but identity is seen as more Madura, Äúmarketable, Äù than other ethnicities to be revealed and diperbin-tighten, especially for the purpose of break the ice or frozen condition at a tense meeting of the forum because it was considered relatively well-da the night brings fresh jokes (absurdity behavior).

In the context of religiosity, the Madurese are known to hold strong (memedomani) Islamic teachings in their lives even if the pattern of leaves, Äúdilema,, Äù to mention any deviation / contradiction between Islamic teachings (formal and substantive) and socio-cultural behavior patterns in their religious praxis. The recognition that Islam as a formal doctrine believed and followed in the life of the ethnic Madurese individual that did not always show linearity in attitude, establishment, and their behavioral patterns. Their religious praxis dilemma, it would become the theme of the study particularly interesting to understand fully, deeply and comprehensively about the ethnography of Madura on one side, and the successful penetration of Islamic teachings on the ethnic Madurese community that most people / other ethnic groups are still seen (believed? ) has undergone internalization of sociocultural, on the other. Such understanding is expected to contribute significantly, especially for the clarity and brightness of the pattern element of view-nation citizens.