Monoculturalism is a idelogi or concepts that will be the unification of culture (homogentitas). In monokulturalisme, marked the assimilation process, ie mixing two or more cultures to form a new culture. As an ideology, monokulturalisme in some countries and the policy foundation or government strategy regarding culture and the state system.

Current developments in Indonesia, is the attempt to create a single culture as an Indonesian cultural identity largely influenced by the media, particularly television by setting Jakarta-ism is a thing contrary to the spirit of pluralism.

We met a lot of soap opera-like in soap operas where the monokulturalisme process, that the slang that is the ‘cave-elo’, that is outdated do not follow what is developing in Jakarta. This kind of centralism inevitably is merely the setting of capitalism to direct the public to be directed to systems already built by the capital. The more homogeneous society, the easier a product to be marketed with the same tastes. Conversely, the more complex or heterogeneous society, the more difficult a product to market in a holistic touch.

Monokulturalisme efforts exemplified in the above process can threaten the sustainability of the entities existing local culture. The tendency to follow the trend among the media has to offer the younger generation is a straight line with a bid of ‘slang’ was.

A child feels more fun to play war games on the playstation than the traditional game play. A mother will feel more dignified when shopping at the mall than in traditional markets. A father feels great if you could bring the child to eat a hamburger or pizza compared to traditional feed. A teenager will feel better if you use slang slang elo ala Jakarta with her-I compared using the Indonesian language well and correctly let alone local languages.

Attitude trends over the most affected by the pattern of life offered by the setting of capitalism. That style is emphasized rather than the quality of life, no matter the quality of clothes at the mall was not different from those sold in traditional markets, no matter that it has Hamburger pathogens that could threaten the health than traditional food such as pancakes or martabak, no matter that the war game can pushing them towards crime, no matter that that slang that has damaged the mother tongue. Even more dangerous, as this indifference was caused by lack of knowledge.

Deni Andriana

Random Posts