http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/muslim-and-poverty/ A blog on current events, blogging SEO tips & tutorial, Indonesia, Islam and more Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:14:52 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/muslim-and-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-67783 akhlis Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:01:42 +0000 http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/19/muslim-and-poverty/#comment-67783 A group of people doesn't have to be minority to get richer. There're other myriad factors involved in being rich or poor. There're always exceptions. I did once see a Chinese family living in a dilapidated hut (tiny house,actually, just to exaggerate) or a Javanese with lots of mansions (like Syeh Puji,if I may take him as an extreme example). I guess we're confusing between 'group stereotype' and 'individual accomplishment'. If you ask me:"Is this something to do with religion we follow, with ethnicity we belong to, with certain mindset within the so-called pribumi that we're attached to?" So sorry, with my shallow undestanding on this enigmatic world, I can't answer satisfactorily, but in a nutshell, it has something to do with any of the possibilities you mentioned. A group of people doesn’t have to be minority to get richer. There’re other myriad factors involved in being rich or poor.
There’re always exceptions. I did once see a Chinese family living in a dilapidated hut (tiny house,actually, just to exaggerate) or a Javanese with lots of mansions (like Syeh Puji,if I may take him as an extreme example).
I guess we’re confusing between ‘group stereotype’ and ‘individual accomplishment’.
If you ask me:”Is this something to do with religion we follow, with ethnicity we belong to, with certain mindset within the so-called pribumi that we’re attached to?”
So sorry, with my shallow undestanding on this enigmatic world, I can’t answer satisfactorily, but in a nutshell, it has something to do with any of the possibilities you mentioned.

]]> http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/muslim-and-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-13130 np_world Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:10:17 +0000 http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/19/muslim-and-poverty/#comment-13130 It's not religion that drives us to be poor, but culture. We don't have the work ethics that most professionals have. Religion is meant to keep us on the right track;however, it is our mentality that decides. The culture that is adhered to our common habit to tackle what's easy first then tackle what's difficult next time around. But the problem is that we forget to go back for what's difficult. We do what most people do. We don't do what few people do. Quote: (The Great Debater-Denzel Whashington, Forest Whitaker) "We do what we have to do so that we can do what we want to do." It’s not religion that drives us to be poor, but culture. We don’t have the work ethics that most professionals have. Religion is meant to keep us on the right track;however, it is our mentality that decides. The culture that is adhered to our common habit to tackle what’s easy first then tackle what’s difficult next time around. But the problem is that we forget to go back for what’s difficult. We do what most people do. We don’t do what few people do.
Quote: (The Great Debater-Denzel Whashington, Forest Whitaker)
“We do what we have to do so that we can do what we want to do.”

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