Cultures

         Hi, guys welcome back to my blog where I had put so many articles which related with certain things that contains of knowledge like history, information technology, and etc. Now, for this one I’m going to discuss about “cultures”. So, if we talk about cultures then it also covered by the whole scope of culture inside societies or people in this world. But, before we discuss more deeply about cultures, do you know exactly what’s the meaning of culture ? allright,culture has 2 meanings and  I’ll tell you what’s the meaning. First meaning; Culture is the way of life that belongs to the group of people or local people and flourish in hereditary that also means inheritable from generation to generation. And the second meaning; culture is the whole knowledge that humans had as the social people to be used for understanding and make an interpret to their environments and their experiences. Besides, it is for grounding base runway to humans in create and consummate the behavior creation or the creation of behavior.

       Okay, from the two meanings that already discussed, it has been combined to be 1 intact sytem’s element which provide and signals the characteristic of humans, wheter it’s their mindsets or their behaviors among the nature and social circumnstance. But wait, there are 2 kinds of culture that you should to know :

·      Local Culture

The culture that flourish in some areas and belong to the tribs in Indonesia. Local culture lives and   flourish to each areas or tribs in Indonesia.

·      National Culture

The culture that formed from the entire whole of local culture that flourish in Indonesia also from the uptake result of foreign culture and global culture with some bond that has been being to be the characteristic of the entire Indonesian cultures which means as the noble values of Indonesia.

Now, we’re moving on to discuss the elements of culture that we should to know. There are 7 elements that was named “the elements of universal culture”. Based on (according to) C.Kluckhohn.There are :

1.  Livelihood system

2.  Equipment and technology system

3.  Society organitation system

4.  Knowledge system

5.  Languange

6.  Art

7.  Religion system (religion ceremony)

But, 7 elements of universal culture based on (according to) Koentjaranigrat, are :

1. Equipments (life’s equipment)

2. Livelihood and economic system

3. Society system

4. Knowledge system

5. Languange

6. Art

7. Religion

          Why there should be life’s equipment and technology ? because it is very important to used by humans or people in every life’s process especially to meet life necessities. Technology is very usefull to produce and maintain all equipments.  

           Why there should be a livelihood system ? because it was included on the elements of universal system but focused on traditional occupation like hunting, raising, farming, and catching fishes.

           Why there should be a social kinship ? because it is the most very important part of social structures. Kinship system is a system that counting line of descent based on wedding relationship and blood relationship. There are several kinship system that still had and being done by Indonesian like Bilateral Kinship System, Multirateral Kinship System, and Ambillineal Kinship System.

              Why there should be a languange ? because languange is used to communicate and interact also to show expressions.

               Why there should be an art ? because it’s referred to the value of the beauty which came up from humans’passions of the beauty that felt and enjoyed by their eyes or ears.

              Why there should be a knowledge system ? because knowledge is the whole thing that human knew about object, character,situation, and hopes. Humans cannot live the life without knowledge.

             Why there should be a religion ? because religion is a conviction that everythings that they’re believed are true and real (like : God, humans, objects, animals, etc) there are faith and hope (of honesty and kindness) and there are several people that was given a trust to run the duty (usually in Indonesia).

Okay, that’s all ladies and gentlemen. I’m pretty sure you already understand after you read my post and make sure if you’re going to give your opinions, put your comments below.

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