Name Class NIM Subject Lecturer

: Aris Nur Azhar : 3-B : 2109100076 : Final test of CCU : Asda M.Pd

1. The reason of cultures constantly changing is because all cultures are inherently predisposed to change. There are three general sources of influence or pressure that are responsible for culture change; force at work within a society, contact between societies and changes in the natural environment. The culture considered as a powerful human tool for survival, but it is also a fragile phenomenon. It is constantly changing and easily lost because it exists only in our minds. Because the cultures have been consider highly as a successful adaptive mechanism for our species. It has given us a major selective advantage in the competition for survival with other life forms. Every human generation potentially can discover new things and invent better things. Inventions may be either technological or ideological. The latter includes such things as the invention of algebra and calculus or the creation of a representative parliament as a replacement for rule by royal decree. Technological inventions include new tools, energy sources, and transportation methods as well as more frivolous and ephemeral things such as style of dress and bodily adornment.. For example, most city dwellers today do not have or need the skills required for survival in a wilderness. Most would very likely starve to death because they do not know how to acquire wild foods and survive the extremes of weather outdoors. What is more important in modern urban life are such things as the ability to drive a car, use a computer, and understand how to obtain food in a supermarket or restaurant. The new cultural skills and knowledge are added onto what was learned in previous generations. As a result, culture is cumulative. Due to this cumulative effect, most high school students today are now familiar with mathematical insights and solutions that ancient Greeks such as Archimedes and Pythagoras struggled their lives to discover. Cultural evolution is due to the cumulative effect of culture but not all cultural knowledge does perpetually accumulate. At the same time that new cultural traits are added, some old ones are lost because they are no longer useful. For example, most city dwellers today do not have or need the skills required for survival in a wilderness. Change can

occur as a result of both invention within a society as well as the diffusion of cultural traits from one society to another.

2. There are many things in my opinion to minimize the effect of culture shock, one of them is became hyper observant toward people behavior and environments. While we doing that, we observer and learn the things that foreign in our logic concepts and accepted it as thing that naturally are there. As time passes, we gradually assimilate to other culture.

3. I had an experience of culture shock which occurred during my first college in UNSOED. The first time I experienced it, I got nervous with the environment changing. The language I faced is Javanese which uncommon through on my hearing. The foods are not fit for my appetite and I hardly get sleep earlier.

4. The custom and the tradition in my society are based of theirs region which is Sundanese. The custom in here are slightly changing because the effect of modernization such as politeness and attentiveness towards other people. For example, today young people are being impolitely towards the older ones. For the tradition in Ciamis, few traditions that have been change as the result of culture changing, one of them is religious activity when Lebaran held. In past, people usually spending Lebaran with greeting theirs relatives, but nowdays people are more using it for resting or taking trip to vacation site.

5. A culture is something that group of human produce in their mind, while themselves make a set of its values related for theirs convenient. Through to pass it easily to another person they make symbols that their accepted. Culture can be passed through the imitation of other which means mimicking the source of culture or inherited from the previous generations as they are things.

6. Cultural Awareness is the foundation of communication and it involves the ability of standing back from ourselves and becoming aware of our cultural values, beliefs and perceptions. Cultural awareness becomes central when we have to interact with people from other cultures. The advantages of cultural awareness are people could see, interpret and evaluate things in a different ways. What is considered an

appropriate behavior in one culture is frequently inappropriate in another one. Misunderstandings arise when ones use own meanings to make sense of foreign reality. Misinterpretations occur primarily when ones lack awareness of theirs own behavioral rules and project them on others. In absence of better knowledge ones tend to assume, instead of finding out what a behavior means to the person involved, e.g. a straight look into someone face is regarded as disrespectful in Japan. Sometimes ones have to step outside of our cultural boundaries in order to realize the impact that ones culture has on theirs behavior. It is very helpful to gather feedback from foreign colleagues on ones behavior to get more clarity on our cultural traits.