Globalization and Traditional Culture

BY KAMARDI RAIS DT PANJANG SIMULIE

Contradictions are very rich in Turkey represents the geographic location as a link between Europe to the Eastern World. Foreign Correspondent Newspapers Washington Post, Edward Cody wrote, "The Priest in the tower (the mosque), look east, toward Mecca, while the businessman from his office that scratch the sky looking west, toward Brussels.

The Prime Minister Turgut Ozal is a business-oriented technocrat and a devout Muslim. When petitions Turkey will join the Common Market, the young women in college envelop their heads with a scarf that had once been banned. Registration in Muslim schools increased six-fold in fifteen years. Which one will win? Revival of Islamic or European Society? Or a combination of creative? Similarly Aburdene Patricia and John Naisbitt, futurist who again in his famous ngetop Megatrends 2000.

It is somewhat difficult to perform surgical culture (cultural dichotomy) in the current era of globalization. Small environmental groups such as rural settlements, as though the world has now become a village. Apparently growing cosmopolitan culture. What made people in the city is used also by people in the village. First, some three decades have been too, yet we find the presence of a beauty salon in the village. Has now spread far into the hinterland.

Have you ever gone to the District Talawi Sawahlunto Sijunjung? Mr village. Moh. Yamin and seasoned journalist or to the Edge Adinegoro d'Ivoire in West Pasaman? In the villages had now been established beauty salon. Whereas their parents used to wear "pakasai" while bathing in the river or wells.

"Pakasai" consists of the ingredients for shampoo to wash her hair in the villages with kaffir lime, pandan leaves, flowers, roses to perfume, etc., plus a powder made from rice to pelicinkan as well as a protective skin and face from heat exposure sun. Women's tempo had already held a salon in the open, on the banks of the river, in the cistern, behind the house, then continued shampoo in the room. Indeed another era now. Almost at every event involving the mother or the girls first requested service beauty salon for hair and makeup.

Is there a symptom of globalization?

In the "Ten New Directions" for the Year 1990, John Naisbitt says that in the face of the year 2000 there is a global lifestyle and cultural nationalism.

Two last words, cultural nationalism, in general, been able to understand its meaning, but the word "global" has sold off many people who want to speak without restraint only. Maybe a legislator, politician, executive officials, and others.

The word "global" is obviously not our language. Not the language of Malays, Javanese nor the Indonesian language. The author tried to find some fruit in a foreign language dictionary when they wanted to write this essay. For example, the Great Dictionary of Indonesian Language (KBBI), Advanced Home-Indonesian Dictionary, Indonesian-English Dictionary by M. Echols and Hassan Shadily, Synonym Dictionary, English-Indonesian Dictionary U.S. composition of EC Hornby Parnwell, A Complete Dictionary of the English-Indonesian-English-Indonesian, Indonesian Encyclopedias, W. Bandung, Van Hoeve published in the 1950s, Kort en Begrip der Maleische Woordvorming Spraakleer by L.TH. Meyer (1902), and others.

Unfortunately the authors did not find the word globalization. Who found only the word "globe" means the goods round, a globe, maps of the earth. Global, the world's universal, comprehensive. Globalism means to understand the national policies that treat the entire world as an appropriate environment for political influence. But globalization can not find words, such as the words generate, generator, generation. Globalization should existing or globalization? In passing this course, I am not an expert.

So, what is a era of globalization, which many people now diobralkan? Perhaps the language could be interpreted according to the feeling that an era when political, economic, social, and cultural linkages have with various countries in the world. This is what is meant by globalization with the symptoms have become global, comprehensive, worldwide.

"Food, fashion, music and materials of everyday life in Europe, America and Japan took the same characteristics," says John Naisbitt again.

The mothers in America and Europe there is a buy chili and chips that he had ever tasted in Texas. Meanwhile in Jakarta we see in almost every corner there are Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is visited by many native people. Americans are infatuated towards shushi, the Japanese American confectionery craze. Georgia adventurous person who ordered octopus and eel. Eels (lendung or mia), a Javanese word, imported from Singapore. From traders in Singapore said that he ordered it from Bukittinggi eel or Semarang. Seen globalization in tastes.

What about fashion? Fashion?

What's the difference now between the styles of young children or college students at Andalas University or University of Bung Hatta with young children at the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University, or students of English, Japanese, and Americans?

In general, the student was wearing trousers Blue Jeans and T-shirt, while Western tourists on the beach of Kuta (Bali), wearing gloves or woven Bali West Nusa Tenggara, Lombok there.

Some time ago TVRI show Chinese girls are already enjoying the beauty salon. They are like a horse that got out of the cage. The girls from mainland China now enjoys balls Western. Wearing a mini skirt and blouse of sheer silk. However, in the midst of the globalization era emerge as we agree on everything, we note also some events that require us to reflect on it.

In a neighborhood near us, on the campus of Teachers' Training College (now UNP) Freshwater, a few years ago, a student saw a young man growled satay seller who like being peeked at bercekerama with a student in the moonlight. The student was not pleased diintip so. No doubt the students pursuing the satay seller. Dagger spoke. Seller sate the young man collapsed and died on the spot.

Local media in Padang morning news broadcast as spectacular. On the one hand we see the freedom of an already disturbed. On the other hand we have to understand these events. Such freedom seems to still not be accepted by our society, even in a stall in their homes, the television was showing Western movies, as well as in cinemas Padang, should no longer reflect the traditional culture.

At other times, local newspapers also have been preaching the raid on a house by a group of village youths because they saw a young visitor at the house of a young girl late into the night. The incident was regarded as an act of "discordant" or buruak Cando to be avoided.

Symptoms What's this? Are those events is a reaction to living in an era of globalization? John Naisbitt says, "As our world grows together, we increasingly appreciate the tradition that springs from within."

This is not just happening on campus or events Freshwater West Sumatra (in the country Bundo Bladder) alone. Let's Turn our view out into other countries. We take the example of the Republic of Singapore. After twenty years to educate people in English to adjust to the world economy, now the "Government of the Republic of Island", the campaign started back in Mandarin.

People Wales, Quebec, is another contemporary example of ethnic and regional groups involved in the struggle to maintain their cultural identity in an increasingly homogeneous world. In his book Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt emphasized: "The more people view themselves as inhabitants of a single planet, the greater the need to have a unique heritage in every culture on earth. It was fun to sample the cuisine of each other, also fun to get dressed in "blue denim", and enjoy the same entertainment. However, if the values are more in the beginning of erosion by the influence of the external environment, people will re-emphasize the differences between them as a kind of cultural counterattack.

Old people, we were very wise and sensible. They berpetuah as a futurist, "Kok already berkelebaran nature, when humans (children's nephew) has been increasingly (bakambangan), sea sedidih without limit, daratanlah had become one, it is clear that hunk of land, wetland berpematang, bermintalak fields, custom stand with inheritance , a line berpantangan lost, forgotten berpantangan speck ... "

This is the era of globalization and traditional culture that emphasizes the identity of each of us on this planet .*