Titile: Globalization and Transculturation in the Context of Digital Media/ New Media as Agent of Transculturation
Abstract
1.0 Introduction
Over the years, transculturation occured all over the world especially today in globalization era including Malaysia. Transculturation first was introduced by Cuban anthropologist, Fernando Ortiz in 1947 where he described the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures:
Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another; it does not consist merely of acquiring another culture (acculturation) or of losing or uprooting a previous culture (deculturation). Rather, it merges these concepts and additionally carries the idea of the consequent creation of new cultural phenomena (neoculturation).
Ortiz(1947) accepted that transculturation can regularly be the aftereffect of pilgrim triumph and enslavement, particularly in a postcolonial period as local people groups battle to recover their own feeling of character.
In one general sense, transculturation spreads war, …show more content…
**In January 2015, a video of South Korean pop band B1A4 hugging three Muslim girl at concert went viral after it was posted online. In the video, the band members are shown bringing fans wearing Islamic headscarves up on stage during an event in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, crooning to them, with one band member kissing a fan on the forehead.
Nowadays, cyber bullying particularly become very common in our society, where it can strike anyone, and can bring about significant psychosocial results including depression, uneasiness, extreme seclusion, also, disastrously, suicide. With free and widely access to social media, people easily can be bullied by anonymous netizens. This kind of culture has been practiced by all people around the world and it also influenced us in Malaysia.
5.0 Conclusion
Abstract
1.0 Introduction
Over the years, transculturation occured all over the world especially today in globalization era including Malaysia. Transculturation first was introduced by Cuban anthropologist, Fernando Ortiz in 1947 where he described the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures:
Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another; it does not consist merely of acquiring another culture (acculturation) or of losing or uprooting a previous culture (deculturation). Rather, it merges these concepts and additionally carries the idea of the consequent creation of new cultural phenomena (neoculturation).
Ortiz(1947) accepted that transculturation can regularly be the aftereffect of pilgrim triumph and enslavement, particularly in a postcolonial period as local people groups battle to recover their own feeling of character.
In one general sense, transculturation spreads war, …show more content…
**In January 2015, a video of South Korean pop band B1A4 hugging three Muslim girl at concert went viral after it was posted online. In the video, the band members are shown bringing fans wearing Islamic headscarves up on stage during an event in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, crooning to them, with one band member kissing a fan on the forehead.
Nowadays, cyber bullying particularly become very common in our society, where it can strike anyone, and can bring about significant psychosocial results including depression, uneasiness, extreme seclusion, also, disastrously, suicide. With free and widely access to social media, people easily can be bullied by anonymous netizens. This kind of culture has been practiced by all people around the world and it also influenced us in Malaysia.
5.0 Conclusion