Racism.....?????

 

Racism fulfils several purposes. Segregation sows seeds of hostility and social jealousy within society to blind the people to the government's failure to provide social justice and welfare. The prejudiced group becomes a scapegoat and a safety valve during times of popular unrest.

Racism, and the violence which often results from it, also legitimates tight social control by the government and the army. This then becomes a basis for disadvantaged groups' dependency on the military and government, despite the state's repeated failure to fulfill its responsibility to provide safety and security for all citizens.

Racism in Indonesia is manifested in many forms, from discriminatory conduct to human rights abuses. The ongoing conflicts in Maluku and Ambon are examples of instances where social tension has built up over centuries, cultivated by a repressive atmosphere, and ultimately erupts when triggered by provocateurs.

In the May 1998 riots, ethnic Chinese were targeted for killings, torture and rape, and their houses and shops were looted and burned. Whoever was responsible, it is certain that the many riots targeting ethnic Chinese throughout 1998 were part of the systematic racism that has been part of the nation for so long.

Racism is not only about the systematic discrimination carried out by governments. It is also about the prejudice that is rooted in the minds of the people having been nurtured for decades, reproduced in many different forms and is part of the mass consciousness. To dismantle it is a difficult and long-term task.

Here I have song about racism for u
let's check it out guys......!!!!
..white Lies.

Global Youth Culture

Global Youth Culture

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lobal youth culture is the trans disciplinary category by which theorists and policy analysis attempt to understand the emergence of the complex forms of hybrid culture and identity that occur amongst youth through media like film, television, music, internet and etc. Youth defined as post-adolescent and pre-adult groups between 15 until 24 years old are perceived as a primary engine for the growth of global media culture. Global youth are seen as actively responding to and identifying with modernized and cosmopolitan western culture. Global youth cannot separate from a rigorous critique of political economy. Youth have utilized new media to mobilize and coordinate global political expressions like the anti-corporate globalization movement that voices youth’s desire for a progressive world based upon alternative globalization. Internet provide youth the world over with instant access to a wide diversity of cultural styles and artifacts. While television and radio remain the most powerful and pervasive media in the lives of most global youth.

Ethnocentrism VS Cultural Relativism

OK guys.... at this time I will share you about the information that I got from the lecture on last Thursday....

it is about ethnocentrism and cultural relativism...

 

Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism are mutually exclusive. They are two extremes on the opposite sides of a philosophical spectrum.

Ethnocentrism is the view that one particular ethnic group is somehow superior to all other. Ethnocentrism leads us to make false assumptions about cultural differences. We are ethnocentric when we use our cultural norms to make generalizations about other peoples' cultures and customs. Such generalizations often made without a conscious awareness that we've used our culture as a universal yardstick can be way off base and cause us to misjudge other peoples. Ethnocentrism can lead to cultural misinterpretation and it often distorts communication between human beings.

Ethnocentric thinking causes us to make wrong assumptions about other people because . ..

• Ethnocentrism leads us to make premature judgments.
• "They" may not be very good at what we are best at.
• By evaluating "them" by what we are best at, we miss the many other aspects of life that they often handle more competently than we do.

On the other side.......

Cultural relativism is the view that individual beliefs and values systems are culturally relative. Cultural relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really"better" than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no absolute standard of good or evil, so every judgment about right and wrong is a product of society. It means that no moral or ethical system can be considered the "best" or the "wrong", and no particular moral or ethical position can be actually be considered "right" or "wrong".

So........ what's your idea about that???



 

Chit Chat with Kirrily

baik teman-teman untuk kali ini saya ingin posting bahasa Indonesia dulu y......

di postingan kali ini saya ingin sedikit menceritakan tentang hasil pertemuan kami para mahasiswa PGSD BI dengan 3 orang warga negara asing. Pertemuan ini diadakan pada tanggal 1 Februari 2012 di ruang Microteaching lantai 2 gesung E. Saat itu saya memutuskan untuk bergabung dalam kelas dengan seorang warga negara asing yang berasal dari Australia bernama Kirrily. Di Australia dia tinggal di kota Canberra yang merupakan ibukota negara Australia. Menurutnya Australia merupakan negara modern dengan banyak warga negara pendatang yang mendiami wilayah tersebut, sehingga Australia tidak memiliki budaya yang khas seperti pakaian, makanan, musik dan lain-lain. Yang diyakini sebagai suku asli Australia adalah suku Aborigin yang menurut Kirrily tidak terlalu bersahabat dengan warga pendatang yang umumnya bersifat individualistis. Australia memiliki hewan khas yakni kanguru, koala dan binatang sejenis landak yang saya lupa namanya....:-P. Kata Kiririly ada juga lho... orang Australia yang doyan menyantap daging kanguru... ich.... tragis...!!!.

Dalam hal waktu, orang Australia lebih on time dibandingkan dengan orang Indonesia, karena toleransi molornya kurang lebih hanya 15 menit...:-D . Kirrily juga menyinggung soal sekolah di Australia. Di sana siswa yang bersekolah di sekolah negeri bebas biaya pendidikan, namun untuk masuk ke sekolah tersebut harus melalui seleksi yang ketat dan satu hal lagi yang menarik adalah mereka memiliki hari libur selama 3 bulan dalam setahun....Asyiiiiknya :-P.

Di Indonesia, dia sudah tinggal kurang lebih satu bulan. untuk belajar bahasa Indonesia. Di Salatiga ia tinggal di jalan Merdeka Selatan.. Dia bercerita tentang pengalamnnya saat dia dikagetkan suara adzan subuh yang sangat keras, dan dia mengira itu adalah suara minta tolong. menurutnya suara tersebut sangat mengganggu dan membuatnya tidak bisa tidur. Namun setelah tinggal beberapa lama, ia pun sudah dapat beradaptasi dengan suara adzan tersebut. Dia juga menceritakan pengalamannya saat pergi ke pasar tradisional di Salatiga yang kotor dan dipenuhi dengan bau daginng yang menyengat. Dia merasa aneh dengan hal tersebut karena di Australia daging dijual ditempat khusus dengan pengemasan yang rapi, diletakkan dalam pendingin dan tentu saja tidak dengan bau yang menyengat......

Namun dari kesemuanya itu Kirrily mengatakan bahwa dia suka tinggal di Indonesia karena penduduk di Indonesia sangat ramah dan suka menyapa. Selain itu di biaya hidup di Indonesia lebih murah dibandingkan dengan Australia dan di Salatiga khususnya sangat mudah mendapatkan kendaraan umum. karena di Australia untuk dapat naik bus kita harus berjalan ke bus stop dan biayanya pun cukup mahal.

Jadi teman-teman kita wajib bangga sudah jadi warga negara Indonesia dengan berbagai keunikannya....

SEMANGAT SKRIPSI ya TEMAN2....!!!!