Disrespectful Quake

I’m only resuming one of my friend’s statements made while making a light conversation with me in a cab several days ago, and she probably generalized them, but these were merely her personal opinions, with no intention to humiliiate or discredit a certain nation, at all. The issues are related to the quake hitting the capital city of west sumatra, sept 30, causing more than a half thousand of death tolls, as for now. Just one day after that catastrophe, my friend who had lived in padang for a couple of years (fortunately she had just moved to jakarta three months ago), explained me about the indirect causalities that might happened. She drawn a relationship between padangnese’ disrespectful manners, to its latest natural disasters.

As a native javanese, my friend is used to the hospitality, in every aspect. Based on her observation, she could not be able to find it in padang. As an example, ideally, a transaction taking place in a traditional markets is supposed to offer the flexibility of bargaining, melted and cheerful interactions, and the kinships which imposible to be adressed in a large-scale hypermarket. On the contrary, the street hawkers in padang are finding difficulties to commit such a well-marketing-strategy. In general, most of them aren’t hospitable in serving their customers. My friend even stated extremely that they never say thanks to their customers and get angry when people do bargain. That is just one scene of padangnese’ inhospitality, besides many other social interactions indicate the same circumstances.

So…up to you to judge or not to judge…wheter God punish them because of their manners or there's nothing to do with such an illogical thought...

Ratu Lanang Sejagat