Cross Cultural Understanding

My Experiences Through Cross Culture Understanding

The first thing that comes on my mind when I heard about “Culture” is something unique and interesting to be learned. Different places have different culture that’s why I think that culture is unique and interesting to be learned. If we talk about culture there are many thing that we can learn, such as about the food(traditional food), languages, arts, dress,  live styles, etc.

In our daily lives directly or indirectly we actually learn about culture from another people around us. Or maybe we go to somewhere to see how the culture of that place. Now, I’ll share my experiences about cross cultural understanding. The cross culture around me that I can see and I can feel is from my classmates. My friends in my class comes from many different town in the Central Java.  I learn about their culture by their story,their live style, and from languages. By hear languages when we are talking is the most easier to way know where is she/ he comes from.

Last year, when I visited Wonosobo to see one of my family member. I’m a little bit have a difficulties in communication.  People from Wonosobo usually speak more quickly and a little bit different with Javanese language or we call it “ngapak-ngapak”, at first I can’t really understand with the language but now I can understand. The famous food from Wonosobo is Mie Ongklok, It’s almost same with Chicken Noodle and Combro. The weather is so cool, because it located in the plateu.

The second place is Bandung. Many people call that “Bandung Paris van Java”,yaa..that’s true Bandung is a nice place, with a nice weather and nice people. There are many shoping centre, many tourist resort,and many place interesting to visited. The languages that used by people here is Sundanese. one day, I meet people and they ask me, where I come from? And I answer “I come from Boyolali mom”, and She said “ Oalah...wong  jowo...kapan pulang jawa?”. That makes me laughh, I thought “ lho...bukannya Bandung itu ya masih di pulau jawa ya? Apa sekarang udah pindah ke luar Jawa”. From that experience I know that people here call another javanese people with “wong jowo”.

Two years ago,I have an opportunity to visit Sumatra Island. The weather is not really different with Java. Most people in Sumatra every morning always drink black coffee the most famous coffee is Lampung coffee. I stay here for a week but, and I’m not understand about the language. The famous food is empek-empek, kemplang, and durian Sumatra.

That’s my short sharing about culture. I hope that it will make us more understand about another culture. There is no good and bad culture because culture is something unique and different.