Thursday 6 January 2011

When Acculturation Culture undermine People's Freedom

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Diverse culture seemed to be a typical of life in this world.Culture is the norms and values that we hold in conducting daily life. Culture became the nation's identity. A collection of community will result in a different culture. The same culture would affect the results of development of civilization.

With the high of mobility, no wonder if the culture have now related. Various cultures interact with each other. In the life of nation and state, culture can not be separated from the role society that embrace it . There is a tendency cultural mix commonly referred to as a cultural acculturation.

Cultural acculturation occurs because of complex needs in social life. A culture will adapt to the surrounding environment. When a culture no longer be considered as a handle in solving a problem, then an external factor will appear. The factors that emerged from the outside this is a sign of the inability of the internal side of the culture to solve general problems.

When Indonesia was developing more advanced, then the culture was also developed. Our culture is experiencing a very rapid mobilization. The influence of globalization and liberalism became one of the causes of this incident. But do not be denied, the existing cultural acculturation is actually the results of our thoughts. The result of our thinking which is used as a reference. The thought that, based on the desire for a perfection. And to achieve it, then we will not hesitate to take factors outside of our culture.

When the interference of cultures occurs, then the norms and values (culture) that we have adopted will also change. Likewise with our perspective in seeing things. The question is whether the cultures that have mingled, we still think of as a culture? If viewed in terms of evolution, indeed all cultures have evolved. Evolution itself is one way to adapt to the surrounding environment. But if evolution is slowly changing the culture as a whole, whether this statement can we justify?

One of the newspaper headlines some time ago is a case Prita Mulyasari. She can be regarded as victims of cultural acculturation.When our culture still restrict the statement of opinion and speech, many layers of society who do not like going to a state like this. At that time, with a frill of democracy, then freedom of speech was proclaimed. Our culture is usually depression in delivering the opinion, immediately turned into a culture that free-spoken

It comes a way out to solve the problem. A substance from outside is taken as an early embryo. Our freedom to speak was put on the basic form of the substance that comes from outside. Human Rights is considered as the strongest basis for sustaining the right of freedom of speech. Next is the fact that the culture that we have adopted in the beginning has been transformed with substances from the outside. This suggests that the products produced by the culture will change.

When we embrace this culture that has evolved, there was a kind of feeling proud and satisfied because they feel has reached a higher level of livelihood. Culture that was not flexible with the desire of its adherents has evolved into a substantial culture which is closely related with the values and norms foreign.

In the end, cultures that we have been forced to change provide effects not taken into account. At the start of culture to speak freely provide fresh air for residents. Of previously (depressed) to express opinions and criticisms feel more freely. If the view of the process, then the majority of Indonesian citizens are not a pragmatic human. But in reality, individual country is mostly a pragmatic man who put the final result.Likewise who are forcing culture to evolve, not thinking about the effects and the occurrence of a problem, but rather look at things from the perspective of the end result or solution.

Case Prita Mulyasari may be regarded as an end result of the culture that has acculturated. Free Culture talk that we want has been obtained. All are obtained by adopting a foreign substance (HAM), which strongly impressed if combined. But we only look at solving problems at low levels. We did not consider the end product of the new culture. Who would have thought, free to speak their own culture to be one boomerang for freedom of speech. Intervention pragmatism nation leaders have led us to the freedom of the confined. It is ironic, cultures that had been changed (we change) to adjust the various problems instead became the weapon of his own master.

As a great nation, let’s develop a way of thinking. Do not look at things from the final result,but look at the processes that occur. This is important because the process tends to determine what is produced in the future. How do we know what would be generated, if the process we do not know,right?We should not directly enter any foreign substance. Think carefully before what will we get in the future. After all, in fact, our ancestors could live safely, comfortably and at ease with the culture of their own without intervention from any side.

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