scholarly journals Fenomena Ajang Pencarian Bakat di Indonesia Ditinjau dari Perspektif Poskolonial

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrizal Yudha Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Talent Search ◽  
Television Media

AbstractThis article aims to examine the phenomenon of Indonesia's talent search arena using a postcolonial perspective. Various talent search programs in Indonesia are imported products, which can be interpreted as an effort to globalize Indonesia. This has indirectly changed the Indonesian people's mindset and culture, one of which is the taste of music, which prefers westernized songs. Postcolonial can be interpreted as a form of analysis unit that can be used to study the form of the new cultural colonial phenomenon, primarily carried out by the west towards nations in the developing (eastern) category of regions. The form of colonialism that occurred was no longer physical colonialism. However, colonization was carried out through language texts, culture, and the development of a negative image of the east by the west, hegemony as a form of power practice. The postcolonial approach in looking at the phenomenon of the talent search arena in Indonesia can provide an overview of how western culture enters Indonesia and hegemony through television media. This form of hegemony is represented in the talent search event, which is full of westernized nuances. The meaning of western culture can be conveyed to the audience and constructed within the audience.AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji fenomena ajang pencarian bakat di Indonesia, dengan menggunakan perspektif poskolonial. Berbagai program ajang pencarian bakat di Indonesia merupakan produk import, yang dapat dimaknai sebagai upaya untuk mengglobalkan Indonesia. Hal tersebut secara tidak langsung telah mengubah pola pikir dan kebudayaan masyarakat Indonesia salah satunya seperti selera musik, yang lebih menyukai lagu bernuansa kebarat-baratan. Poskolonial dapat dimaknai sebagai sebentuk unit analisis yang dapat digunakan untuk mengkaji bentuk fenomena penjajahan kebudayaan model baru terutama yang dilakukan oleh Barat terhadap bangsa-bangsa yang ada di kategori wilayah yang sedang berkembang (timur). Bentuk penjajahan yang terjadi tidak lagi penjajahan secara fisik, namun penjajahan dilakukan melalui budaya, teks bahasa, dan pembangunan citra negatif tentang timur oleh barat, menghegemoni sebagai bentuk praktik kekuasaan. Pendekatan poskolonial dalam memandang fenomena ajang pencarian bakat di Indonesia dapat memberikan gambaran tentang bagaimana budaya barat masuk ke Indonesia dan menghegemoni melalui media televisi. Bentuk hegemoni tersebut direpresentasikan dalam acara ajang pencarian bakat yang sarat akan nuansa kebarat-baratan, sehingga makna kebudayaan barat tersebut dapat tersampaikan kepada audience dan terkonstruksi dalam diri audience.

scholarly journals Narrative Realism at the Interplay of Traditionality and Modernity in Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Woods and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Moustapha Ndour
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
West African ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Effects ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Realist Novels ◽  
African Community ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
And Control

This paper articulates the interactions between a traditional and modern world as embodied by the colonizer and the colonized, focusing on Ousmane Sembène’s God’s Bits of Woods (1960) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between (1965). It argues that both narratives can be read as realist novels that counter the hegemonic power of the European empire. While Sembène engages in critiquing imperialism and its social and cultural effects in the West African community –Senegal, Mali and Niger – Ngugi concentrates on the internal problems of the Gikuyu as they respond to the contact with the Western culture. The essay claims that the sociopolitical agendas in these novels should be understood within the context of French and British colonial regimes concerned with finding a legitimizing basis and control in an era when social and political forces of the colonies were energetically asserting themselves.

A study of attitudes toward Western culture among Saudi university students

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Anderson Hagler
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
University Students ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The West ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Instrumental Motivation ◽  
Clear Majority

This paper analyzes the attitudes Saudi university students hold toward Western culture. Saudi participants completed an open-ended questionnaire about attitudes toward Western culture, consisting of five open-ended questions. This paper presents questionnaire responses from 210 university students in Saudi Arabia (male and female). This paper finds that most of these students are integratively motivated and therefore show a positive disposition toward Western culture. It also shows a correlation between instrumental motivation and students who study on science and engineering tracks. The study shows that a clear majority of students like some aspect of the West or Western culture. The study concludes that these Saudi students are predisposed to interact favorably with the West.

Introduction: Enter the Sexagon

Sexagon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Sensitive Questions ◽  
The West ◽  
As If

Among the sensitive questions involving Muslims living in the West, and in Europe most singularly, there is the position of Islam on homosexuality. In certain contexts, this question would be the sole and unique key to the possible “integration” of Muslims in Western culture. As if European cultures and values could be reduced to the acceptance or rejection of homosexuality....

Logic and Law in Russian and Western Culture

1998 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Galina Sorina
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social

The purpose of my paper is to compare those texts of Russian and Western thinkers where the relations between logic and law are discussed, and especially to show both the differences and the agreements of their understanding of this connection. Second, I would also like to show and contrast the place of logic and law in Russian and Western systems of education. Third, I propose to clarify some conclusions from my analysis of these relations for understanding the social life of a country and its culture. I believe that this is possible since the relations between logic and law, which are a special subject-matter, are only a part of a larger whole. There is no hard and fast line separating the place of these relationships from the whole of culture. The quality of this relationship is an indicator in some sense of the nature of culture and of its democracy. I would like to show with regard to the West that the classical logical culture determines the types of rationalities, argumentation patterns, and various kinds of political and juridical rhetorics. The consequences of the lack of logical culture in Russia will also be shown.

Safeguarding a «Civilization in Crisis»: La Revue Universelle's Conceptualization of Western Civilization and its Renewal,1920–1935

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Shurts
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Common Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Conservative Revolution ◽  
Conservative Values

Safeguarding a <Civilization in Crisis>: La Revue Universelle's Conceptualization of Western Civilization and its Renewal, 1920-1935 This article contributes to a comparative study of the «Conservative Revolution» in Europe by exploring the French journal Revue Universelle in the 1920s and the early 1930s. Led by Henri Massis, Jacques Bainville and Jacques Maritain, the intellectuals contributing to the journal developed a unique cultural politics that evoked the decadence and decline of Western civilization under the forces of modernity, and called for the defence and renewal of this civilization through revitalised conservative values of Catholicism, authoritative leadership, elitism, and a return to the spiritual sources of Western culture. However, while the Revue Universelle team intentionally cultivated a pan-European scope for their journal and promoted its cultural politics as a common language for all European conservatives, their aim was compromised by their francocentric and germanophobic conceptualisation of the West and civilization.

scholarly journals Tele-saga jako narzędzie współtworzenia medialnych narracji: poprawa wizerunku homoseksualnych mężczyzn na przykładzie bohatera "M jak miłość"

Panoptikum ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Anna Felskowska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Male Character ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Best Friend

In the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, affirmative images of homosexual men began to appear in both Polish cinema and drama series. Several factors contributed to this, including the “influence of the West” after Poland had joined the European Union. Driven by socio-political changes, the improvement of gay men’s media image can be observed on the example of the male character of the Polish soap opera M jak miłość (L for Love) – Grzegorz. In episodes produced in 2003, Grzegorz is an secondary, definitely negative character and represents a serious threat to the heteronormative social structure. Two years later, in 2005, Grzegorz appears in M jak miłość again, this time equipped with positive features: generosity, unselfishness, patience, sensitivity. He implements the “gay best friend” stereotype – is a friend of one of the female protagonists, also becomes a victim of a homophobic attack. However, same like the negative image of homosexual men, the positive image constructed in opposition to it is a sign of a social problem.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND EDUCATION (CITE): Correcting Negative Image of Islam, Spreading Moderate Islam in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-176
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ali Nurdin ◽  
Rosihon Anwar ◽  
Husnul Qodim ◽  
Usep Dedi Rostandi
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Islamic Thought

This paper discusses the participation of educational institution, Centre for Islamic Thought and Education (CITE) in promoting and campaigning moderate and tolerance Islam in Adelaide, Australia. The article also attempts to close reading of the discourse of moderate Islam itself to answer fundamental questions about what moderate Islam is, what CITE attempts to do, can do, and cannot be expected to do. This study is essential to fill the gap in the dearth literature discussing the role of educational institution in campaigning moderate Islam in Australia. This study was based on observation and interviews conducted with main figures of CITE and the staff members or the supporters of the group who actively involved in their activities in Adelaide, Australia. The result of the study shows that as an educational institution, CITE has significant roles in promoting moderate Islam and straightening negative image of Islam in the West.

scholarly journals KI HAJAR DEWANTARA, MENGURANGI PENGARUH BARAT SECARA KULTURAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Iskandar Wiryokusumo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Values

The entry of  Western values, among others through culture, has been known recently. Culturalvalues are mostly among others enter through technology and consumer goods as product of  technology.One attempt tobalancevaluesof the West, which would be cultural values, performed byKi Hajar Dewantara, a National Cultural Educator once was. In an attempt balancing the effortsmade on the basis of  Javanese culture is more family-oriented, independence, a sense of  moralhigh priority and live in harmony with nature. Many of  the teachings of  Java is developed throughslogans and statements originating and noble values normative religious. So Western culture, suchas individualistic, rationalistic, and intellectualism can be compensated fairly and naturally.Keywords: Western values, Javanese culture, cultural values.

Access to the Divine: Gender and Votive Images in Moldavia and Wallachia

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Christine Peters
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Wall Painting ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Adam And Eve

In Orthodox Last Judgements in sixteenth-century Moldavia, both Adam and Eve appear as saintly intercessors on behalf of mankind. The presence of these suppliant figures, on either side of the throne of hetimasia (Plate i), suggests that Orthodoxy and Catholicism differed significantly in their evaluations of the gender implications of the Fall. In medieval Catholicism the portrayal of a nimbed figure of Eve, or even of Adam, was inconceivable. In the West the ideas of the Fall as the cause of the crucifixion and of Mary as the antithesis of Eve produced a powerful set of negative views of women’s nature. The weaker sex was inherently vulnerable to temptation, flattery, and persuasion, endangering not only women’s souls but those of all mankind. The veneration of Mary tempered this negative image, but Mary’s extraordinary nature could never entirely erase the assumptions of innate female inferiority based on the role of Eve in the Fall. The depiction of Eve as a saint in Orthodox wall painting appears to offer an unexpected challenge to the view that such gender associations are the only possible outcome of the Genesis account. It is also tempting to relate the presence of such representations in Moldavia to the highly unusual social position of women in Moldavian society, based on inheritance customs which divided estates equally between both sons and daughters.

Snakes, Leaves, and Poisoned Arrows

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert Kowalewski
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
The Way

A paradox about emotions is that although we experience them directly through our minds and bodies, they appear to be vague and elusive when we try to talk about them. Consequently, most of the language used to speak about emotions is metaphorical. This observation is consonant with cognitive linguistics, which views metaphors as conceptual rather than purely verbal mechanisms. Emotions are one of the central matters of Buddhist philosophy, and language used to talk about them abounds in conceptual metaphors. This article inspects metaphorical expressions used in the canonical collection of early Buddhist texts. It reveals fundamental differences in the way emotions are thought of in Buddhist and Western culture. While in the West emotions are typically conceptualized in terms of FORCE, Buddhism conceives them in terms of FORCE, OBJECT or both. These variations are not incidental and results from fundamental differences between Christian and Buddhist worldviews and philosophy.

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