Feminism And Tradition Analysis

Feminism and traditions are two things that interrelated in presenting culture. According to Uma Narayan in her journal entitled ‘Dislocating Cultures/ Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism’, she did mention about the difficulties that have to be faced by the double standard women; who are from the third world countries, in adapting themselves at the first world countries. Women from the third world countries are facing difficulties in maintaining their tradition in this modern world. To preserve their culture, they have to maintain their tradition as they are the symbol of tradition. To solve this, Uma Narayan came with the suggestion to practice the flexibility in culture that encourage the culture to be more flexible and …show more content…
Rendra did representing the writer’s criticism towards the politicians and the authority that create the judgement towards the prostitutes (low class people). Another poem that critics the politician is the Variety Show poem by Hwang Jiwoo. The poem entitled ‘Identity no longer’ by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is a poem that expressing the writer’s feeling when she became the American citizen. Another poem is by Salleh ben Jone, ‘The Ballad of Mat Solo’ which representing the element of cultural hybridization in the “hero” …show more content…
If that person choose to move away, the chance of the culture hybridisation to occur is possible as that person is no longer a part of society and he/she will find his/her new identity. Thus, here comes another ‘Mat Solo’, who is a cowboy with Kris. ‘Mat Solo’ in Salleh ben Jone’s poem is one of the representations of the cultural hybridization. In this case, person who is move away from his/her society might not have to follow his/her tradition and able to live his/her own life according to his/her own way without being judged and being too attached with her tradition. He/she might be migrated to the other country and able to experience the feeling of being a foreigner in the other country as what has been express through the ‘identity no longer’ poem. However, the act of moving away from society somehow will cause someone to forget his past. As what has been mentioned by Muhammad Haji Salleh in blood, “the present is too crowded” which brings the meaning that he is too busy to remember the past and he has no time for that. When he/she does not remember about his/her past, the bond between his family might be fading over time as he/she is no longer remember about his/her