Type III

Task : 1. What do you think about culture lag in Indonesia?

          2. Please give three examples of Cultural Diffusion!

Essay : Please give your own comment about Ethnocentrism in Indonesia! (at least 50 words)

1. Culture Lag in Indonesia is still happening now especially in the border or backwoods. Some citizen doesn’t know what is electricity? Lack of subsidy from the government causes the citizen it’s nearer from the poverty. They don’t have enough money to buy a mobile phone. Moreover, in the backwoods it’s really difficult to search voucher reload for their phone. Usually, the citizen who lives in the small island, it’s too hard to get the new update about technology improvement. Lack of acknowledgement is also influence to the ignorance about how to use the new technology.

• McDonald’s, Burger King and Starbucks are fast food and coffee shop from America. It’s very popular in Indonesia too. In every different country the appearance of that store it’s different. They built the interior match with the culture in every country. The taste and the ingredients is change too, according to the place.

• New York State generally lies within the English-speaking culture region. Nevertheless there are significant cultural communities within New York State in which Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, or another language is dominant. Moreover, they built Chinatown for Chinese whom live in United States.

• The Irish are cheered when they have their St. Patrick Day parades in United States. The Italians, while they face some opposition from radical American Indians, are still able to celebrate Colombus' Day parades.

ESSAY

In Indonesia some people still look the others by him or her face. If the face full of scar they think that person is criminals or ex-prisoners. They think like that because Indonesian it’s too much watching dramas. So, they can’t open their minded to accept every people without have a negative thinking. Moreover there is some citizen look the others by their skin. If the skin got darker, they think that person is dirty. Besides that, maybe their generation from the dark skin. If there is a citizen thought like that we not going to be a developed countries if we still like to underestimate the others.

Type II

Task : 1. What parts of our material culture reflect Cultural Diffusion?

          2. Please give three examples of Ethnocentrism!

Essay : Please give your own comment about global diffusion in Indonesia! (at least 50 words)

1. In social media. Almost all of teenagers had a Facebook, Twitter, Path, etc. That social media was from another country and very popular in Indonesia. In fact, the teenagers in Indonesia doesn’t know that we have own social media like Nyunyu.com (something like Twitter). Even is not good enough like the other social media but we must appreciate everything from our country. Maybe we must increase our unbelieving about any product from our country. If we always seen the bad thing of our country, who is going to appreciate it.

• In England many believed that the darker a person is the "dirtier and impure" they are. Some people believed that some races were not even races. Instead they were considered animals and not humans. One would expect that with so much diversity adaptations would develop, however, racial intensity rose to new heights. 
• Imperialism, the practice of taking over other lands, was heavily practiced by Europe starting in the sixteenth century. 
• Believe that our religion is better than somebody else's. It’s one of kind ethnocentrism, because every religion teaches us the best thing to do in life, not the worst thing.

ESSAY

Global Diffusion in Indonesia is quite disturbing me. Like so many fast food that the entrepreneur built in many places. The price started from the cheapest one until the highest one according to the quality. And usually people who always buy fast food is a person who need something to eat but they can grab it fast without takes a longer time to cook. If we often consuming fast food, the production of our brain will be increasing gently. Because Indonesian have been pampered with every facilities. And they forget to do some exercises to balance their body.

Type I

Task : 1. What are the similarities or the differences between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism?

          2. Please give three examples of Cultural Shock!

Essay : Please give your own comment about Cultural Lag in Indonesia! (at least 50 words)

1. Ethnocentrism is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture. It creates a biased evaluation of unfamiliar practices. The evaluations of cultural variations in the maintenance of personal space or bathroom practices are illustrations of this concept. Cultural relativism is the practice of judging a culture by its own standards. The issue of cultural sensitivity related to international business ventures is amusing, but there are some cultural practices which are deeply disturbing, such as child labor in various parts of the world. This suggests that perhaps there are some universal standards we could identify as necessary rather than accepting any behavior within the context of cultural relativity.

http://wps.prenhall.com/ca_ph_macionis_sociology_5/23/6029/1543629.cw/index.html

• The similarities between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism, both are means of judging other groups and their culture.
• The differences between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism: Ethnocentrism is quite different than that of cultural relativism. Terms such as underdeveloped and primitive are prime examples of the ignorance societies use to describe another. A person with an ethnocentric perspective may view other cultures as deviations from what is "normal". The history of the English serves as a prime example of ethnocentric beliefs. Discrimination plays a direct role in the ethnocentric belief. During the exploration period the discrimination against blacks by whites was a major controversial issue.

http://www.studymode.com/essays/Differences-Between-Ethnocentrism-Cultural-Relativism-108512.html

2. A young native Canadian moves from the Northwest Territories to attend university in Toronto, Ontario. The easiest thing for him to make a good society is interact with Toronto dialect.

• Niken wanted to work in capital city. So she went to Jakarta for a better work. The difficulties she got when she arrived in the downtown, she didn’t speak fluently with the capital languages. Because she was from java, so she was unusual with it. So she learned to interact with the society with the new languages for her. And she also tried harder to live in town which known as “the tight city”.
• There is a hug cultural difference between society in Pakistan and the modern society of the States. In Pakistan society there is a joint family system, the children live together with their parents whether they are under 18 or not. In United States, there is a concept of "individualism". Everyone has an individual life, making their own decisions for everything. In US, a person over 18 living with his parents is considered an immature person. In Pakistan, a person not living with his parents doesn't have a respectable place in the society, because it is their social and religious custom to take care of their parents.

ESSAY Cultural Lag in Indonesia

Culture Lag in Indonesia is still happening now especially in the border orbackwoods. Some citizen doesn’t know what is electricity? Lack of subsidy from the government causes the citizen it’s nearer from the poverty. They don’t have enough money to buy a mobile phone. Moreover, in the backwoods it’s really difficult to search voucher reload for their phone. Usually, the citizen who lives in the small island, it’s too hard to get the new update about technology improvement. Lack of acknowledgement is also influence to the ignorance about how to use the new technology.

Ragunan

Ragunan is a tourism place for who need a cheap and entertainment vacation. This picture was took in there almost three years ago. I went to there with my classmate in college. We ride motorcycle to go there. It took two hours to go there from Bekasi to Ragunan that located in Pasar Minggu. Our length trip paid while we saw many kind of animals. So many species that we can found in there, such mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, etc. My friends and I very enjoyed with the views. We also captured many picture to be reminded. For your further information if you want to go there, you can bring the foods or drinks from outside. But if you want to buy some snacks in there it’s ok, you just need more money because the price of the snacks is very high. And you can’t do in there is never feed the animals! Overall Ragunan is an interesting place to visit when you need a referention for vacation.

Dufan

This one is my favourite place for vacation, Dufan. They have many games or tracks to play. Start from the track for the children until for adult. You just need pay attention the rules if you want to ride one of the tracks. The cost to enter Dufan is very expensive. But it befit with the quality games in there. The price of the foods or drinks in Dufan is very expensive too. The place where located in the north of Jakarta just took one hour from Bekasi. You must enter Ancol before you reached there and you must pay too for enter into Ancol. There are no boring games or tracks in there because Dufan prepare many various tracks. This picture  was took three years ago with my classmate in university. You need to bring exchange clothe if you get wet when you ride in water track. I can’t explain more about this place. You can come by yourself and feel the experience when you’ve been there.

Ancol Beach

The place where I took this picture was in Ancol beach. Me and my friends went to this place after we visited to Seaworld. We stayed there until the sunset coming. All of us was very like beach. I didn’t what we were doing during we waited for the sunset. I forgot, hahaha. I thought we just have chit chat, like telling the funny story about our friends each other, or did the silly thing. We also never forgot to captured many picture in there with so many style. And we tried to ask the fishermen whom wanted to start doing their job. Start from the price of every fish until the income of their occupation every day. Beside that the environment in the Ancol is not clean enough. Maybe because the place was rebuilding, so that’s why the place made one higher. But I went there one year ago. If you go there now maybe that place gonna beautiful to visit. To enter Ancol is cheap enough.

Seaworld

This picture was taken in Seaworld, Ancol on October 28, 2011. Me and my best friends went to there by iin’s car.  It took one hour to go there from Bekasi. We visited that place because we needed an usual place to came. The last time we went there, we were so young. So that’s why we wanted to go there again. And another reason why we went there because we had a free ticket for five people. The college student is very like if they’ve get something for free. In there we were not just saw the fish but we also can see phyton that protected by Seaworld. And also we can do diving in the giant aquarium with various animals or if you’re brave enough you can diving with the sharks. We can feeding the turtles and touch them too. Not only the turtles that we can touch in there, the starfish and sea slug too. There was so many good views. If you’re a narcism person you can capture many picture in there with a good spot. There were many kinds of aquarium start from the smallest until the biggest. Overall you’ll not disappointed if you go to there. And for the price I think it’s standard.