Cross Culture Understanding

CCU (Cross Culture Understanding )

PART I

INITIAL ATTITUDES

The first we meet a new culture we may have two different points of view :

The first possibility is  oppeness, acceptance and trust. Oppeness here is we may  have the same thinking of how this culture is and   we make effort to know  about this culture. Acceptance, it means after we have already known about the culrture , finally we have decided that the culture is good for us, because we have  the same thinking of the way  of the culture is applied. And then trust , it means after we have open and accept the culture , of course we will believe the culture and we can share our culture with the new culture.

The second are suspicion, fear and predudice. Suspicius means we think that it is worst  culture , and we will feel it is bad and we are fear with this culture. This culture is dangerous for all of the people especially for the young people, and will suspect the other culture and our country will be bad in international. Because all of the other country prejudice  indonesia consist of many bad culture.

PART II

INEVITABLE REACTIONS TO CROSS CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

And the effect  of our initial attitude will be frustation, confution, tension, embaitasment.

Our reaction  of the crossing cultureal  encounters aca be frustation, we don’t know it is better culture or not. And we confuse of our thinking in accept or reject the new culture we have known.

Because the new culture is not same or one way with our thinking, we will be tention of the culture, we want to break the culture and  regret ever known the culture. Morever when somebody else ask us about the knew culture we have known , we will feel very shy, because it is the true embrassing culture we knew.

PART III

COPYING SRATEGIES

Choice I

We observe the culture, watching the something occure in order to learn more about the culture , so that we know the fact of that culture. For the example why Reog Ponorogo must be done with some ritual, because we just need our strenght to move the big mask.  Beside observising the culture we can get the date from the source by listening the information  and we can asking them the more information which we want to lost our doubt in assesing the culture.   

Choice II

The culture can we critic. Because it has more bad thing or attitude when we watch it. Better out culture then this culture, so why we must accept this culture. Less of education value. Of course we contra with the culture because we think it is bad culture but if there is a positife side we can pro for this culture. Or we withdraw from the culture , never jon or not desire to watch the culture anymore. For the example when there is “ Nyepi “ in Bali I choose to stay and sleep in my room.

PART IV

RESULTS

Possibility I

If we get the positive result of our positive coping strategy, of course we can make a good relation between our  culture with another culture. And we will understand everything they  do in their culture. For the example we can join in every their activities even just sitting down and watching , not more. We don’t need to do the same activity or their culture, because it has shown that we agree and accept with the culture.

Possibility II

The result can be alienation too. Because it is not same with our thinking of the good culture. And we isolate it with our culture or another culture. Because of course it will influence our good culture. We will never combine and share the culture one another.