Thursday, May 24, 2012

How to Control Social Conflict in Multicultural Society

Multicultural society is a diversity of cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and ethnic stand-alone. Multicultural society intertwined with subsystems that are primordial. This primordial form a kind of confidence that someone believed in since childhood. Primordial beliefs are influenced by the place where he lives, such as the influence of traditions, customs and beliefs of local environment.

Indonesia called multicultural society, while culturalism is a unifying ideology of cultural diversity, ethnic, and tribes in Indonesia. There are several forms of culturalism, that is multicultural isolationist, accommodative, autonomists, interaction and cosmopolitan. Multikulturalisme isolationist form of a cultural group that is divided only a small part of their group. With accommodating multiculturalism is a dominant culture that make an accommodation for a group of minority cultures.

Multiculturalism on society, this accommodation is plural. In the multicultural autonomists, is the culture of the dominant culture to maintain the life of equality and equal to the dominant group. Culturalism in the form of a multicultural society interaction and the latter is cosmopolitan. Emphasis on group interaction plural is more focused on how to live a more autonomous and more emphasis on distinctive perspectives.

Latter is a cosmopolitan multiculturalism. Is usually followed by a cosmopolitan group of liberals who place more emphasis on freedom. Understand this attempt to eliminate the perception of cultural boundaries that had been believed.

Shape and Community Conflict Multikutural

This multikulutral community is free. Does not restrict anything, like religion, race, and others. This means that more flexible. This form of the diversity of our country. According to Van Den Berghe, the cause of the conflict caused by a multicultural society the following things.

1. Segmentation of Different Cultures Group

For example, the Islamic religion is too fanatical to the flow that was followed. People who are too fanatical religion causes them to limit themselves to the community. They restrict and limit the information that different people with their beliefs result of bigotry. Fanaticism is shaped in a group or neighborhood area. Bigotry that can lead to conflicts such as the split. This bigotry and religious sects blamed the other one and make it as an enemy.
Sometimes religion can be divisive because of the religious people of this country precisely formed and united with each other. All of that depends on the basic social formation in a multicultural society to the most important.

2. Development of the Basic Value Less

Lack of awareness suggests that the strata of consciousness and its knowledge is limited. This limitation, that are generally causing a conflict terjadinnya. Multicultural society was formed with a base value of diverse cultures, beliefs, and ethnicity. Many choices of this kind may make people complacent and confused by the diversity of forms.

3. Often in Conflict

Multicultural communities often experience conflict due to the following matters.

a. Geographic shape

The geographical shape of the world determines one's behavior trully. Indonesia consists of various islands. Each island is separated seas, straits, and the ocean. No wonder these geographical forms contribute to the occurrence of conflict.

b. Influence of Foreign Culture


Easy access and pulling the islands of Indonesia, as well as the form of a multicultural society is what gives the value of expensive for foreigners to learn. Easier for travelers on holiday in Indonesia enjoy a wide range of beauty and culture. Consciously or unconsciously, tourists come on holiday to bring their culture.

A simple example of external influence are various types of clothing from outside the mini and open. Because in our country from Sabang to Merauke contain cultural society, it is difficult for the government to give control of outside influences that go.

c. Language

Cross-cultural psychology greatly affect communication between people from one area to another area. Language is a bridge to understanding other cultures because of the language and culture have a close relationship. Language is able to provide reinforcement to the culture.

d. Different Natural Conditions

In cross-cultural psychology, natural conditions with each other very affecting. This is due to natural differences adannya which a person is able to adapt to other environments.

For example, the different natural conditions occurs adannya stereotypes that had been developed. Java man was known to a gentleman, gentle, and friendly. In contrast to the Batak people are known to be more rugged weighted by the Javanese.

When eating, the Batak are accustomed to eating with eating a lot. Conversely, if the Javanese eat less than the Batak people. Other differences such as removing facial. Look, the Javanese are very ready smile and friendly to others even in his heart was a lot of trouble.

Another example, when attending a banquet there are Javanese whose feet trampled by others without willful, the Javanese are not angry. Instead, he even apologized to the people who stepped on his foot and told him that his foot stepped on. That it should apologize for stepping on people, not to step on.

Likewise with the Batak, when his foot stepped on, may be angry or spontaneously responded by stepping harder. This is evidence of a difference with natural conditions differ from one to another.

4. Integration of the Forced


Integration is a basic form of social control to minimize social conflict. If integration is enforced, it will cause conflicts and disputes. This is because there is a continual feeling supposed. Factors of diversity and pluralism in Indonesia's multicultural society adheres to the principle of pluralism. This is due to the geographical location of Indonesia with many island and separated from each other. If the absolute unification of efforts, it is very difficult. Thus, this form of pluralism that eventually gave birth to the culture or cultures.

Visible form of a multicultural society with a culture of pluralism language, ethnicity, and religion. For example, such as interest rates Sumatra to Java. These two tribes have difference contrast, in the form of language, customs, and beliefs. If the diversity of multicultural experience cusp, ie the more the difference, the greater the chances of conflict, social conflict, and integration. Why are multicultural societies prone to conflict of this kind?

This is due to the erosion of tolerance amongst and loss empathy. Multicultural social structure consists of the social structure, namely the social structure terinterseksi / intersected social structure and social structure of a consolidated / consolidated social structure.
 
Intersection of social structure is loyal. In the everyday world, loyalty affects social interaction and culture. Loyal behavior bear a reciprocal or cross exchange of information. This is commonly referred to as cross-cutting and cross-cutting affiliation loyalitie.

Consolidated social structure is usually more of a closed because of communications made only people who have a background, race, and the same tribe. The rest of them to close the communication from the outside, so that in normal social structures overlap and bias of communication.

Multicultural society that will lead to biased communication and small factors can trigger conflict. Conflicts overlapping constraints and parameters will lead to divisions, differences, and social conflict. Trigger consolidation in the community is due multikulutral caste division and the like.

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