Interaksi Sosial Etnis Tionghoa dengan Penduduk Lokal Etnis Batak Toba di Balige

Abstract

Social interaction is a person's ability to carry out social relations with individuals or groups marked by social contact and communication. This study aims to find out how the Social Interaction of the Chinese Community and the Toba Batak Community in Napitupulu Bagasan Village, Balige District, and to obtain the factors that led to social integration between the Chinese community and the Toba Batak community in Napitupulu Bagasan Village, Balige District. The research method used in this study is a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. The data sources or informants were eight people, including the Chinese community and two Toba Batak people in the Napitupulu Bagasan Village, Balige District. Collecting data in this study using observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the forms of social interaction between the Batak Toba community and the Chinese Ethnic in Napitupulu Bagasan Village, Balige District are cooperation, competition, accommodation and assimilation. The integrating factors include communication, social interaction and the relationship between the Toba Batak people and the Chinese ethnicity, mixed marriages and the giving of the Toba Batak clan to the Chinese ethnicity. The social interactions that occur between the Toba Batak people and the Chinese Ethnic cause social impacts, namely positive impacts that lead to cooperation and negative impacts that lead to conflict or opposition.