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Personal identity is something that each human have. Of course each human have different personality and also I have it. From the differences we can find something that unique. Every human have multiple identity, such as culture, race, religion, sex (male or female), etc. I am from Sundanese. Some people have some stereotype about Sundanese, one of which is sundanese cannot say words with letter f.

I have an experience about that. In my college SSE (Sampoerna School of Education) I have friends from different culture. There are Javanese, Bataknese, Betawinese, etc. I just realized that the stereotype is true. I recognize that I often consciously said f became p, for example “fanta” I said the word became “panta”. When I talking with my friends from another culture I usually did it and my friends usually laugh. My friends usually asked me “why sundanese cannot spell f?” I think it is because in sundanese language there are not words with letter f, most of the words in sundanese language with letter p. From the case, if I will to say the words with letter f, I always carefully not to make more mistakes in pronunciation. It is because I don’t want my friend laughing me again.

Then, because my friends who most usually mock me are from Javanese, so I began to analysis what the weakness from them. Finally I found it. Evidently, Javanese cannot say words with letter g, they say it becomes k, for example “endog” became “endok”. I was happy because I can mock them tooJ. So, each of us same have the weakness for pronunciation of words because cannot say specific letter.

Another stereotype about sundanese that I have heard is sundanese people especially female are talkative. Is it right? I do not really know about it. Reflect to me, maybe I am a talkative person, but in my opinion not all of sundanese people are talkative. It is because I have friends who calm person, they are not talkative. So, the stereotype is less precise. It possible if someone who make a judge like that more often met with talkative person from sundanese.

Besides negative stereotype about sundanese, I heard a positive thing. Some people assume that sundanese people, especially female are beautiful. I am so happy to hear that. In my opinion, people have the right to stereotype another people, country, etc., but before we stereotype another thing we must to find out more in the longer. It is because according to me that to judge or stereotype something, firstly we must have strong evidence. So that no one was harmed in this case.