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CHAPTER III

MINANG CUSTOM
A. Minang customs and culture

Every nation has its own way of life or

WELTANSCHAUUNG. Of course, the view of life of a nation or
group of people is an agreement of the group or nation itself. This

means that a nation's view of life is not necessarily compatible with
other nations, for example, the American people who make

freedom (liberal) a way of life place the values of freedom in the
individual as the main thing in that country. In fact, the value of

freedom in Uncle Sam's country is far greater than other nations in

the world, such as China and Cuba, who make communist ideology
their way of life, in this understanding the state has absolute

freedom and the shackles of individual freedom.
In Indonesia, Pancasila is used as a way of life, because the

values contained in it have been a way of life that has been adopted
since the ancestors of this nation. Likewise, small groups of people

in this archipelago, including the Minangkabau ethnic group. What

this ethnic group uses as a way of life is the values found by their
ancestors which are poured into a container called adat. Customs

are habits or traditions passed down from generation to generation

from the ancestors or ancestors of an ethnic group, then these