'Belonging' in the Intercultural Communication
2. Analyze how ‘belonging’ is central to intercultural communication.
Every individual definitely belongs to something. As a mankind, every individual belong to the place where they born or raise. ‘Belonging’ means that every individual always adopt the life style and culture from the country or a group each individual raised or born. For example, the ways individual eats, how every individual communicate and interact with others. Every place or group has different life style and culture from the other. Every culture has differences, from these differences, the way each individual behave and perceive the world also different. This essay deals with a question: how ‘belonging’ is central to intercultural communication and there are three parts in explaining this question. First part will explain how Indonesian people develop their identity and how this identity relates to ‘belonging’. Different place have different culture. When one culture moves to another culture it will need a process called adaptation. Adaptation to another culture is something that is not easy like learning to another language. In adaptation, not all-different culture can be accepted. Usually, the origin culture will reject the new culture. This phase can influence the way other individual communicate with others. Last part will focus on how ‘belonging’ also can be a problem in intercultural communication. How ‘belonging’ also can be a barrier for individual in perceive other culture. Stated by Nagel (1994) identity is the basic way in creating the ethnicity. First, each of the individual will begin to explore or discover the characteristics of identity from people around or from the place the individual born. Identity is including ethics, values, morals and beliefs. Usually the identity shaped within age of teenagers. According to Fong (2004, p. 20), there are three stages in cultural identity. First, the individual adopt their culture by without they ask but with what they see
Every individual definitely belongs to something. As a mankind, every individual belong to the place where they born or raise. ‘Belonging’ means that every individual always adopt the life style and culture from the country or a group each individual raised or born. For example, the ways individual eats, how every individual communicate and interact with others. Every place or group has different life style and culture from the other. Every culture has differences, from these differences, the way each individual behave and perceive the world also different. This essay deals with a question: how ‘belonging’ is central to intercultural communication and there are three parts in explaining this question. First part will explain how Indonesian people develop their identity and how this identity relates to ‘belonging’. Different place have different culture. When one culture moves to another culture it will need a process called adaptation. Adaptation to another culture is something that is not easy like learning to another language. In adaptation, not all-different culture can be accepted. Usually, the origin culture will reject the new culture. This phase can influence the way other individual communicate with others. Last part will focus on how ‘belonging’ also can be a problem in intercultural communication. How ‘belonging’ also can be a barrier for individual in perceive other culture. Stated by Nagel (1994) identity is the basic way in creating the ethnicity. First, each of the individual will begin to explore or discover the characteristics of identity from people around or from the place the individual born. Identity is including ethics, values, morals and beliefs. Usually the identity shaped within age of teenagers. According to Fong (2004, p. 20), there are three stages in cultural identity. First, the individual adopt their culture by without they ask but with what they see