I was born in the Javanese family. My father is from Tulung Agung, East Java and my mother is from Banyumas, Central Java. Although my parents are Javanese but I still can’t speak Javanese fluently until now. I think it is because I never have conversation with Javanese language in my daily activities. My parents don’t use Javanese language as the main language while we are talking in our house but we only use Indonesian language everyday. Moreover I live in Tangerang, Banten which the people there mostly talk in Sundanese for many activities. My friends in my schools also use sundanese and Indonesian to communicate. So I more fluent speak in sundanese rather than in Javanese. Actually I can speak Javanese but not the polite language of Javanese. So sometimes I still confuse when someone who is older than me talk in Javanese with me. It’s not because I don’t know the meaning but I don’t know what polite words that suitable to answer them. So finally I more often answer them in Indonesian.
Sometimes I feel confuse when someone ask where I come from. I f I say that I’m from Tangerang then they will judge me as a Sundanese people, then I will explain to his or her that I’m a Javanese. Then when they ask me where my birth place is, I answer them that I was born in Banjarmasin. So then they become more confuse and they make me don’t understand why they have to be confuse. Everyone might be born in somewhere that doesn’t have any related with their ethnic group and also same for their current house.
Sometimes I feel confuse when I’m thinking about hometown. Actually I don’t know what the true meaning of hometown is. I only know that hometown is a place where many of our families live there. That’s what I know about hometown because I usually go to Banyumas or Tulung Agung when Idul fitri comes and many of my families live there. Although I also have another families whom live in other places and I often visit them too, but It can’t be said as “pulang kampung”. Maybe because the place is not in the village so they don’t call it as “kampung”. So it means that pulang kampung is only for place in village. How about someone who go to Semarang as his/her hometown? Does it called as kampong when we know that Semarang is a city?
Actually I don’t know where my hometown is because the places which I come to there for many times are my parents’ hometown because they were born there but I also feel that Banjarmasin is not my hometown although I was born there and I also don’t really understand with the area in my parents’ hometown. I feel more comfort in my current house in Tangerang but I don’t really understand with the sundanese language there. So, how to answer what and where is my hometown?
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