CCU - Game Report

The game we done several days ago teach us about something that is related to the culture. Before we started the game, the class divided into 4 groups, then the lecture give the rule for each group. And the main rule of this game is, we have to silent, we are not allowed to speak, we are not allowed to talk each other. We have to play with the cards, the member of the group that get the most card have to move to other group.

This game is like culture. It looks like same, but in fact it is different, it has rule. Each group in this game is like country, which is has its own culture. Each culture has its own pattern; the way of life of each culture is different. The country might be has one culture, and it is called monoculture nation. In a monoculture society, the essential traits are common heritage, belief structure, language and usually a mono-racial identity. The other country might be has more than one culture, it is called multicultural nation. In the multicultural nation, there are multiple cultures. It consists of various languages, nations, values, but they live together in a country. Sometimes, in multicultural nation, there is a phenomenon called ethnocentrism. It is the view that one particular ethnic group is somehow superior to all others.

The people in the group of this game are like the society. They experience a process whereby an established culture teaches an individual by repetition its accepted norms and values, so that the individual can become an accepted member of society and find their suitable role. This process is called enculturation. When someone leave their country and go abroad for certain period, they have to learn about the culture of the country that they will visit. They go abroad for sojourn, it can be sojourn for business, study, or just travelled.  In the beginning, they will experience holiday or honeymoon period, they very positive about the culture and feel fine with it. When they more face to face experience of the culture, they can feel strange and frustrating, they cannot adapt to the culture so they experience a culture shock. It is the personal disorientation, it is the confusing and nervous feelings a person may have after leaving a familiar culture to live in a new and different culture. When they can adapt the culture in the country they living now, little by little they can accept the value and the rule of the culture there, they experience the process of cultural and psychological change that result following meeting between cultures. It is called acculturation. It is different from enculturation, acculturation refers to the process by which one who already has that native culture adopts elements of another, foreign culture.