What will we do to face GLOBALIZATION? - Berryl Carlos Manuel XIIA6/8

Globalization is the process of entering foreign culture into regional culture or the process of cultural exchange, views and other aspects. Globalization is a term to explain the increased social and trade related exchanges between nations. It implies that nations are moving closer together economically and culturally. In recent years through the internet, air travel, trade and popular culture, globalization has rapidly increased. Globalization can occur due to the development of information and technology media. So it becomes easy for someone to access info and share info to other. This will boost the influence between 1 country and another country.

Actually, if we see more objectively, globalization has good impact. Trough the impact of globalization, it can make us to know more about other country’s culture, perspective, views, religions, studies, cuisine, and many more. We also can improve our technology that can make us better. With globalization, everything will gonna be better. We can also imrove our tourism / tourist detination in our country, because we can use media to introduce our tourism.

Globalization does not always have a good impact. Globalization also has a bad impact. what are these bad things? Globalization will bring foreign culture into our culture. this foreign culture can attract people to study that foreign culture than their own culture. That is the problem that caught my attention, especially in Indonesia. In Indonesia, our country, many people prefer to watch Korean drama than watch Wayang Kulit, learn about west music or genre of music that developed in west than learn about folk music. Prefer to follow foreign clothing than use batik. This what can we highlight. In other side, Globalization can make us easier to search anyting on internet. If we can’t filter, that would be bad. Teens or kids can watch unnecessary content trough internet. Globalization can also fade the spirit of mutual cooperation, solidarity. And globalization can make people more selfish.

As students and teenagers, we also got the globalization impacts. We can access information more easily, find out the latest news, developments in the world, make us not outdated, and through the internet, everything becomes easy. We are easier to do tasks, listening music, learn, and more easily understand what is happening and help to train our thinking. There are also bad effects from globalization on the development of teen. The effects are : The teens can’t help far from their handphone, gadget, or their laptop. They are more interested with their own world. Their imagination, their gadget, their games, or whatever like that. Many teen nowdays prefer avoid interaction with many people and more interested with their gadgets than gathering with their friends. They’re becoming anti-social or many student in my school call this “ANSOS”. Then, many Indonesian teenagers often go out at night. consider free association as a normal, and teens welcome the entry of foreign culture. The way to dress young people in this case or students who are now no longer upholding the value of politeness, most of them dress in minimal and strict. You can just exemplify the school uniforms that they use when they are at school. Uniform clothes that should be formal, sometimes made "adventurous", such as tightly made clothes, and skirts made shorter.

Moral crisis also occurs because the values of Pancasila are now fading and are no longer implemented in social life. Pancasila which is supposed to be a guide to life and the philosophy of the nation is now just a motto. In acting, most people have ignored the principles of Godhead, Humanity, Unity, Popularity and Justice. Today's national identity has faded, resulting in immoral behavior that harms others and makes the country increasingly worse.

So, how we can respond to it? First, we have to love our culture. We have so many cultures, so many diversity that can integrate us. So we have to love our local products. Loving domestic products is an attitude that can be developed to avoid excessive Western-style lifestyles. Then, In the field of Social and culture, so that we still have a good name, and a strong faith, then we are obliged to filter the positive culture of a foreign country and discard its negative culture. What is the example like? Yes friendly, polite in speaking, doing good, believing, etc. basically positive culture. And we have to do the things that contains in Pancasila. And the most important thing is this, so that we are still given a clear path, shunned from problems, musiba, etc. So believe, how? Pray, pray according to religion, and always do good to people.