THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE

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Submitted For Assignment Cross Cultural Understanding Course

Lecturer : Irawansyah, M.Pd.

Arranged by:
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1. Annisa Fitri Zian Meliantika 1911040268
2. Chusnul Khotimah Bilkis Syuliani 1911040292
3. Meriza Angraini 1911040396
4. Rismita Marisa Utami 1911040468

Class : 6F

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TARBIYAH AND TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY
ISLAMIC STATE UNIVERSITY OF RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG
2022
 PREFACE

Praise and gratitude, let us pray to the presence of ALLAH SWT who has given us
physical and spiritual health so that we can enjoy the beauty of Allah natural creation. Sholawat
and greetings continue to pour out to our prophet Muhammad SAW who has shown us the
straight path in the form of perfect religious teachings with very beautiful language.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 1
1.1 Background of Study ....................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Formulation of the Problem............................................................................................. 2
1.3 The Objectives ................................................................................................................. 2
CHAPTER II DISCUSSION ........................................................................................ 3
2.1 Definition Of Culture ....................................................................................................... 3
2.2 Definition Of Language ................................................................................................... 3
2.3 Definition of Society ....................................................................................................... 4
2.4 Culture Affects Perception .............................................................................................. 4
2.5 Culture Influence Behavior ............................................................................................. 5
2.6 Culture Shapes Personalities ........................................................................................... 5
2.7 Other Effects of Culture .................................................................................................. 6
2.8 The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception ............................................................... 7
2.9 The Influence of Culture in Adolescent Development .................................................... 8
2.10 Examples of Cultural Influence ................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER III CONCLUSION ................................................................................... 11
3.1 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.2 Suggestions .................................................................................................................... 11
BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................................................................... 12

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study

Culture is the energy of the thoughts withinside the shape of copyright and flavor, even
as subculture is the end result of a copyright experience, initiative, and a experience of the
Koentjaraningrat (1976:28). Culture is owned with the aid of using each state, and consequently
the subculture of each state are together different. Although every so often there are similarities
in addition to own circle of relatives and race. As in dialogue is that how are we able to facilitate
a fine affect of the human beings of various cultures with us, of route we have to first recognize
their subculture in order now no longer took place conflict subculture among our subculture
with their subculture.

“Culture is the sum of all of the types of art, of love, and of thought, which, withinside
the route of centuries, have enabled guy to be much less enslaved.” ~ Andre Malraux

Culture is the invisible bond which ties human beings together. It refers back to the
sample of human activity. The art, literature, language, and faith of a network constitute its
subculture. Our cultural values and ideals take place themselves via our lifestyle. Our ethical
values constitute our subculture. The significance of subculture lies in its near affiliation with
the approaches of questioning and living. Differences in cultures have brought about a variety
withinside the human beings from one-of-a-kind elements of the world.

Culture is associated with the improvement of our attitude. Our cultural values impact
how we method living. According to the behaviorist definition of subculture, it's miles the
closing machine of social manage wherein human beings screen their very own requirements
and behavior. Our cultural values function the founding ideas of our life. They form our
questioning, behavior, and personality.

The lifestyles of a subculture associated with society builds affect in diverse aspects.
For example, the affect of subculture on conduct and subculture have an effect on perception.
In this paper, the writer will talk the affect of subculture specifically.

1.2 Formulation of The Problem

1. What is the meaning of culture, language, and society?

2. How does culture influence behavior

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3. How is the influence of culture on visual perception

4. What are some examples of cultural influences?

1.3 The Objectives

1. To know the meaning of culture, language and society.

2. To understand the influence of culture on behavior.

3. To understand the influence of culture on visual perception.

4. To find out examples of cultural influences.

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DISCUSSION

2.1 Definition of Culture

Culture is intently related with the network. Melville J. Herskovits and Bronislaw
Malinowski argued that the whole lot contained withinside the society is decided via way of
means of the subculture of that's owned via way of means of the network itself. The time period
for that opinion is Cultural-determinism. Herskovits view subculture as some thing passed
down from one technology to another, who then known as extraordinary organic.

According to Andreas Eppink, incorporates the complete expertise of the subculture of

social values, social norms, and basic expertise of social structures, religious, etc., further all
highbrow and creative expression that characterizes a society. According to Edward Burnett
Tylor, subculture is a complicated whole, that it incorporates the expertise, belief, art, morals,
law, customs, and different competencies from any individual as a member of society.
According Selo Soemardjan and Soelaiman Soemardi, subculture is a way of work, taste, and
the copyright network.

Of the numerous definitions, it may acquire an expertise of the subculture is some thing
in order to have an effect on the extent of expertise and consists of the machine of thoughts or
the thoughts contained withinside the human mind, so that during regular lifestyles, the
subculture is abstract. While the embodiment of subculture are gadgets created via way of
means of humans as a sophisticated shape and conduct of gadgets which can be real, for
example, styles of conduct, language, device lifestyles, social organization, religion, art, etc.,
which all of that's supposed to assist set up a lifestyles in human society.

2.2 Definition of Language

Language is a device or cultural embodiment utilized by people to speak with every

different or relate, both thru writing, verbally, or gestures (signal language), with the intention
of conveying the intentions of the coronary heart or will to the interlocutor or different people.
Through language, people can adapt to the customs, behavior, and manners of society, and on
the identical time it is simple to assimilate themselves with all styles of society.

Language has numerous features which may be divided into popular features and unique
features. The popular characteristic of language is as a device for expression, communication,

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and a device for social integration and adaptation. Meanwhile, the characteristic of language
particularly is to set up relationships in day by day life, to create art (literature), to have a look
at historical texts, and to make the most technological know-how and technology.

2.3 Definition of Society

Society is some of those who are a unitary institution which can be completely
associated and feature the identical interests. Such as; schools, families, associations, the
country is all society. In our sociology, we apprehend that there are varieties of society,
particularly the paguyuban network and the petambayan network. The paguyuban network has
a non-public dating among its participants which creates an internal bond among them. In the
patambayan network there's a self-fascinated dating among its participants.

The technique of converting society and subculture in all its aspects, from the
conventional device to the current device. The elements that have an impact on it include; 1)
the improvement of science, 2) technological developments, 3) commercial improvement, 4)
financial improvement.

2.4 Culture Affects Perception

How we understand matters is essentially suffering from our judgment skills,

preconceived notions, mindset, and emotions. These elements are intently connected with our
subculture. In perceiving some thing as exact or bad, our biases play a position and so does our
manner of thinking. In judging some thing as smooth or difficult, our mindset and our
motivation degrees play a key position. Our subculture determines the shape of our thinking,
which affects our perceptions.

People who belong to cultures that sell individualism generally tend to have a take a
observe simplest the principle factors of a situation, even as the ones of a subculture that
promotes collectivism generally tend to recollect even the minor details. American subculture
that is predominantly individualistic, promotes giving freedom of preference to youngsters on
account that a younger age. The Japanese subculture which promotes collectivism, instead
encourages the parents/elders to make alternatives for his or her youngsters. This is an instance
of the way parenting is perceived in contrasting methods because of the variations in subculture.
Similarly, human beings of Eastern cultures understand achievement as being a collective
effort, even as the ones of the American subculture understand it because the fruit of person
effort.
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Our subculture bureaucracy the framework for our mind and behavior. The thoughts
ingrained in our minds via way of means of our subculture impact the manner we understand
human beings and situations. For instance, girls from male-ruled societies understand guys to
be superior. Women from cultures which dictate that their apparel ought to cowl the complete
frame or even their faces, might imagine of a skirt or a low-reduce dress, as provocative.
Research has proven that our subculture does play a position withinside the manner our mind
approaches facts and reacts to stimuli. That’s one cause why subculture is so important.

2.5 Culture Influence Behavior

Culture affects perception, and perceptions pressure behavior. Thus, the lifestyle we
belong to, has an instantaneous effect on our behavior. Moreover, our environment, which has
cultural influences, shapes our behavior. In a society wherein boys are discouraged from crying,
guys think about it as an peculiar gesture. If the values of a positive lifestyle do now no longer
train guys to appreciate women, it's going to certainly replicate of their behavior. Behavioral
and communique etiquette are part of our lifestyle. What our lifestyle teaches us impacts the
manner we have interaction socially. People from a few cultures are observed to be greater open
in speaking regardless of strangers or new acquaintances, even as the ones from conservative
cultures might not be so open. The distinction among ideologies their cultures have, are
accordingly glaring of their social behavior.

Our lifestyle defines our requirements of private area. The time period proxemics,
coined via way of means of Edward T. Hall, is described because the interrelated observations
and theories of man’s use of area as a specialised elaboration of lifestyle. The distance we
preserve in the course of communique is basically impacted via way of means of the lifestyle
we belong to. Our gestures, usual frame language, and the diploma of bodily touch made in the
course of communique is suffering from our cultural norms.

Our religion and morals which might be part of our lifestyle, have an effect on how we
behave. Our morals affect our emotions which include disgrace and pride, and our religion
defines what we understand as proper or wrong, accordingly affecting our behavior.

2.6 Culture Shapes Personalities

Group lifestyle determines the behavioral norms for a organization. To be popular as

part of the organization, we generally tend to comply with what the organization makes a
decision for us. Influenced via way of means of the norms or policies laid out via way of means
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of our lifestyle, we act according with them. Our lifestyle defines humans’s expectancies from
us. In the try to satisfy them, we form our conduct and persona to fit our lifestyle. Our religion,
traditions, customs, all part of our lifestyle, play a first-rate position in shaping our personalities.
The manner we understand a scenario and react to it, relies upon in large part on what we've
got found out from the surroundings and the manner we had been added up. These elements are
intently connected to our cultural values. Though our nature and schooling additionally play a
component in growing our personalities, the lifestyle we belong to has a dominant position to
play. People born and taken up withinside the equal lifestyle are regularly observed to
percentage sure persona traits.

Our lifestyle shapes our fee and perception systems, which affect our personalities. In a
lifestyle wherein youngsters are taught to be unbiased early in life (American, for example),
they develop as much as be individualistic. In a lifestyle wherein boys and women aren't dealt
with as equal, youngsters might also additionally emerge as competitive and study the other
gender as their enemy, or the ones dealt with as inferior might also additionally develop as
much as be submissive. People from cultures that take a greater holistic approach (Eastern
cultures), are visible to be greater able to know-how different factors of view. People from
cultures that sell individualism (Western cultures) are observed to be much less able to know-
how a person else’s perspective.

Besides this, the art, folklore, traditions, language, amongst different additives of
lifestyle that we're uncovered to, outline our personalities. We gather ideals and expertise of the
arena from the humans round us. It’s the social organization we stay in, that affects our picks
in life. Thus, the cultural surroundings that we're surrounded via way of means of, shapes our
personalities.

2.7 Other Effects of Culture

Certain ideals approximately fitness and hospital treatment are part of all cultures.
Depending on those ideals given with the aid of using their tradition, human beings might also
additionally or might not be open to therapies. People from cultures that trust bodily and
intellectual illnesses to be medical phenomena are open to discussing the signs and getting the
proper remedy. Those from cultures that trust illnesses as being a curse of God, might not take
delivery of clinical remedy very readily. The social recognition to intellectual sicknesses or
character problems is likewise encouraged with the aid of using tradition. Cultural variations
have an effect on our mindset toward infection and hospital treatment. People from sure social
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agencies pick an authoritarian relation with clinical experts, whilst others pick a pleasant
relation, which lets in for higher communique. Due to the differing ideals approximately
ailment and remedy, clinical practices range throughout cultures. In assessing a patient’s man
or woman care needs, clinical experts want to realize his cultural ideals. Also, a patient’s
cultural historical past impacts elements just like the form of own circle of relatives aid he'll
get, the fitness selections he'll take, and the manner he'll address his infection. This is how
tradition impacts fitness care.

How does tradition have an effect on enterprise? During enterprise communique with
human beings from a extraordinary tradition, their ideals and manners must be taken into
account. Language boundaries want to be overcome. Cultural variations effect the fulfillment
or failure of enterprise negotiations. The variations withinside the sensitivity to time, manner
of communique, decision-making, risk-taking, and contemplating the events involved, want to
be considered. In orienting a enterprise for a sure goal group, businesses want to look at the
cultural values of that group. Their tastes and choices are encouraged with the aid of using their
tradition. The marketing and marketing techniques hired for an American target target market
will now no longer paintings for Asians. Hence companies want to bear in mind cultural
variations proper from product layout to marketing.

2.8 The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception

The alternatives in Part 111 of our series hint dilferences in social notion to
environmental forces that form the minds of perceivers. The first choice establishes the effect
of visible revel in on item notion. It summarizes a large-scale look at which established that
gross traits of a person’s bodily surroundings (inclusive of dense jungles rather than flat land)
have an effect on the size of the person’s perceived area in methods which might be measurable
with wellknown laboratory illusions. This truth means that the belief of universality in notion
is usually a volatile one.

One noteworthy methodological function of the look at is the truth that the perceptual
surroundings of the people investigated become cautiously inventoried, in order that their
responses to the laboratory check scenario might be systematically associated with the sector
wherein they lived. The cloth blanketed right here is drawn from the extent The Influence of
Culture on Visual Perception (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966), and represents the “Summary and
Conclusion” section (Chapter 8) of this extent. That human notion is culturally stimulated has
lengthy been a proposition entertained through many social scientists. The plausibility of this
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proposition is high, primarily based totally as it's far upon sure present day philosophical and
social medical concepts, inclusive of that of cultural relativism. Moreover, many information
collected in mental laboratories through college students of notion, information that delineate
the crucial function of an individual’s studies in his next perceptions, beautify the plausibility
of this proposition.

2.9 The Influence of Culture in Adolescent Development

Culture itself has an know-how of a manner of lifestyles that could broaden and be
owned mutually through a collection of human beings that's then handed down from era to era,
way of life that's some thing that can not be separated from people in order that many human
beings assume that it's miles inherited genetically.

In Indonesia itself has many various cultures, certainly considered one among that's
cutting-edge way of life that develops withinside the lives of young adults. Indonesian way of
life itself could be very thick with pleasant conduct, politeness and additionally mutual
appreciate for every other, so it is going to be very smooth to set up brotherly ties.

1. The erosion of conventional cultural values

Nowdays, young adults are extra happy with overseas cultures which have entered
our way of life, particularly conventional values which have been used considering that time
immemorial. For example, cutting-edge young adults select to look at western movies than
their personal nation's cultural movies, they're extra proud to look at overseas movies that
display their promiscuous character which could be very distinct from Indonesian way of
life.

2. Forgetting conventional meals

Teenagers now choose to eat outdoor meals together with junk meals eating places
which have commenced to unfold in malls, perhaps there's a unique satisfaction while
ingesting those meals even as they're conventional specialties in their very own people,
despite the fact that junk meals isn't always always more healthy than junk meals. very own
conventional.

3. Lazy in dressing
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Teenagers these days may be stated to usually observe outside cultural

developments in phrases of appearance, perhaps they're afraid to be stated to be tacky, in
the event that they do not observe the manner of dressing that may be a fashion amongst
teens, despite the fact that that is truly very inconsistent with the way of life of the
Indonesian state which usually adheres to a way of life of politeness in phrases of dress.

4. Promiscuity

The turbulent existence of teens and lots of affects from the surroundings will
virtually have an effect on their nature and conduct as well, even to the factor that a person
engages in promiscuity with deviant conduct, all of that's virtually a function of outside
affiliation and now no longer from our country's way of life, for that we want a manner.
keep away from promiscuity in adolescents. Because in preferred the conduct of teens who
usually observe alongside like that, can't be selective in selecting their very own institutions
due to the various affects from the encompassing surroundings, as a result making them like
that.

5. The decline in spiritual ethical values

Teenagers who experience that they ought to usually maintain up with the times,
can be status in the event that they usually observe their very own way of life which they
recollect a long way from present day, in order that this could lessen the ethical fee in their
very own spiritual psychology, even analyzing sports after sundown that are normally
executed through kids. antiquity is now beginning to be hardly ever visible. Teenagers
choose to visit the mall with buddies and spend their time travelling and spending money.

6. Cultural arts are fading

Adolescents these days have a tendency to opt for overseas artwork way of life in
comparison to their very own country, they opt for present day matters in order that this will
have an effect on home cultural arts that are diminished and eroded through present day
trends like these days.

7. Influence language

Of course, we've visible very regularly small kids or maybe teens in towns who use
overseas languages in preference to their very own local languages, in truth maximum
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mother and father are extra pleased with their kids gaining knowledge of and talking
overseas languages in preference to talking their very own local languages.

2.10 Examples of Cultural Influence

The first is that tradition affects human conduct in interacting with different human
beings. Human conduct in interacting with different humans have modified human conduct
while socializing. We are presently dwelling in a totally state-of-the-art era. All elements of
lifestyles had been touched through era, one in every of that is the factor of conversation with
cell telephones as merchandise. This makes human beings capable of use cell telephones to
communicate, in order that a social media tradition is formed. Humans now select to socialise
thru social media together with Facebook, Twitter, My Space, and others. As a result, they come
to be passive to the encircling environment.

The second, culture affects human selections in intake conduct. The improvement of the
enterprise because of era makes organizations produce their items in bulk and comparatively
cheaply. This has additionally encouraged the alternate in human tradition, which turned into
at the start an agrarian society and progressively changed into an city society. As a result, new
values and styles of lifestyles are created because of human tradition that has come to be an city
society. This reasons their lifestyles desires to come to be greater and greater, for that reason
making them hold to shop for merchandise to fulfill the desires of the brand new tradition. In
the end, a consumptive society is formed, particularly a society that usually consumes items
and services.

Third, tradition impacts the order of social lifestyles. This developing era impacts the
order of human lifestyles. Humans are aware of the usage of superior technology which have
been created. As a result, human tradition that used to stay certainly has now changed into a
totally state-of-the-art one. This cultural alternate creates a present day society, particularly a
society that lives surrounded through superior technology.
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CONCLUSION

3.1 Conclusion

Culture affects perception, and perceptions pressure behavior. Thus, the lifestyle we
belong to, has an instantaneous effect on our behavior. If the values of a positive lifestyle do
now no longer train guys to appreciate women, it's going to certainly replicate of their behavior.

People from a few cultures are observed to be greater open in speaking regardless of
strangers or new acquaintances, even as the ones from conservative cultures might not be so
open. The distance we preserve in the course of communique is basically impacted via way of
means of the lifestyle we belong to. Our religion and morals which might be part of our lifestyle,
have an effect on how we behave.

It can be concluded, our morals affect our emotions which include disgrace and pride,
and our religion defines what we understand as proper or wrong, accordingly affecting our
behavior.

3.2 Suggestions

In our opinion, culture is an inseparable part of social beings. therefore its influence and
role must be balanced in society. There needs to be tolerance between diverse cultures. We
believe the implementation of this tolerance will correct the influence of an inappropriate
culture.

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