RESEARCH ARTICLE
Ethnocultural Empathy in A Pluralistic Society: Inter-ethnic Relationships of Javanese and Chinese Children in Surakarta
Taufik Taufik*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 12
First Page: 95
Last Page: 101
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-12-95
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101912010095
Article History:
Received Date: 03/12/2018Revision Received Date: 13/02/2019
Acceptance Date: 06/03/2019
Electronic publication date: 28/03/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Objective:
The present qualitative research described the ethnocultural empathy existing between Javanese and Chinese children in a pluralistic population.
Materials and Methods:
Data was collected using focus group discussions and oral interviews. Sixteen students (boys and girls) of multi-ethnic schools in Surakarta of Indonesia participated in the present study.
Results:
Results indicated that (1) participants acknowledged that they had to feel what other people felt, and it is the beginning of ethnocultural empathy; (2) participants who had interaction-experiences with those from different backgrounds seemed to have high levels of ethnocultural empathy; and (3) at school, both ethnic groups were taught to respect each other’s culture.
Conclusion:
The present study indicated that empathy had a strategic role in building social strength. Using empathy, each group understood and felt conditions of other groups.