English speech text sample: Talent show of local culture

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Are you all familiar with talent show on TV? Something like idola cilik or Indonesia mencari bakat?

TV rating shows that talent show still becomes one the most watched programs on TV and I’m sure all of us agree that yes, everyone deserves to show and explore their talent , like what I’m doing now.

Ladies and gentlemen,

All around the world, idea of creating a talent show has significantly improved. More and more people are attracted to be one of a talent show contestant. People all over the world agree that every single person deserves to explore his talent and to show his talent public. Talent show shows audience the idea of hard work and it builds confidence of the participants. Hard work and confidence of engaging audience is absolutely something positive which agreed by anyone all around the world.

Acting,singing, dancing, acrobatics, drumming, martial arts, playing an instrument are the examples of talents which can be shown in a talent show. Do you notice that basically, the talents shown in a talent show are something related to the work of art. And art is something which is closely related to culture.

Talking about talent show and culture, I wonder if any of us has ever thought of creating such a talent show which perform local culture packaged in local value.

Are you all familiar with the saying “Think Global, act local?”. For some people it maybe only a slogan, but you know what, we can make it real through talent show!

In Indonesia, we know Indonesia mencari bakat or Idole Cilik. Both of the talent show are basically good to accommodate the talent owned by each participant. However, aren’t we happy to see that a talent show which not only show a modern performance yet a accommodate local culture instead?

The idea is clear, ladies and gentlemen, that we do not want to be merely imitator only even for a TV program. We knew that that TV talent show basically comes from western country which adapted almost exactly same as the original show in the origin country. We can’t be only become an imitator, and by creating our own talent show format that brings local culture, we can promote our culture in a way which is recognized worldwide.

I will show you how a talent show can be a culture as well as talent promotion agent. Now imagine that I’m coming to a stage as a TV talent show contestand and you are the judges, one would be Ahmad Dhani, one becomes Nagalila and one becomes Kak Winda. Ok, are you ready?

(Irfan is playing instrument and singing)

So, how would you comment on my show? It’s great, right?

The idea of bringing local culture in a talent show is not only to show a talent. Age proved that culture is a set value that keeps life meaningful. In order to achieve that, we need to set an event which is in the process involves the local wisdom that is recognized by the participant as part of the show itself.

In the process for example, we need to apply a value of local wisdom, like what Javanese believe in Ngelmu pari saya isi saya tumingkul, that is a value of being humble even though one has become popular or knowledgeable because of his knowledge of art he gets from the talent show. This value is important to avoid new popular people forget who they were before becoming popular.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest u all