RACISM

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.  It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage -- the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.  Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

To ascribe one's virtues to one's racial origin, is to confess that one has no knowledge of the process by which virtues are acquired and, most often, that one has failed to acquire them.  The overwhelming majority of racists are men who have earned no sense of personal identity, who can claim no individual achievement or distinction, and who seek the illusion of a "tribal self-esteem" by alleging the inferiority of some other tribe.  Observe the hysterical intensity of the Southern racists; observe also that racism is much more prevalent among the poor white trash than among their intellectual betters.

Historically, racism has always risen or fallen with the rise or fall of collectivism.  Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests.  The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force -- and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

Racism involves the belief in racial differences, which acts as a justification for non-equal treatment (which some regard as "discrimination") of members of that race.The term is commonly used negatively and is usually associated with race-based prejudice, violence, dislike, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and contested definitions. Racialism is a related term, sometimes intended to avoid these negative meanings.

 As a word, racism is an "ism", a belief that can be described by a word ending in the suffix -ism, pertaining to race. As its etymology would suggest, its usage is relatively recent and as such its definition is not entirely settled. The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the "belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races" and the expression of such prejudice,while the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief. The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: "the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others."

Some sociologists have also pointed out, with reference to the USA and elsewhere, that forms of racism have in many instances mutated from more blatant expressions hereof into more covert kinds (albeit that blatant forms of hatred and discrimination still endure). The “newer” (more hidden and less easily detectable) forms of racism – which can be considered as embedded in social processes and structures – are more difficult to explore as well as challenge.

Global Youth Cultural

Life will continue to change, so does the technology capable of creating a new media where there is a wide range of media influence is on the development of the younger generation. We could not stop the changes that occur at this time, we can do right now is how we can harness the influence of the media to improve the quality of our lives.

In this era of globalization there is a lot of growing media influence today, especially in the media telokomunikasi. We all know that once the booming communications media is the phone, but of course as a result of the development period the mobile phone technology is not sufficient for telokomunikasi media, so that now the influence of media is the most booming internet technology.
Already there are many parties who discuss the influence of such media internet technology, but which I will discuss here is not about the consequences, but rather see a wider variety of media influence on the development of our next generation. That is like what?

Look, if most of the other party may explain the different influence of the media is kind of difficult to control the dissemination of information, well, if here we will try to discuss about the security will be an information. So, if the other party to discuss the core of the problem then we will discuss the outer part of the problem.

Various effects of the influence of media is certainly a kind of threat, but of course also be a medium that can simplify life, but that's only if the user is able to capitalize on media media correctly, if not how?

Various acts of crime can happen everywhere, it's also one of the bad influence of media on the quality of a person. It could also be due to the influence of social media in various ways that humans were to change, and it is one of the positive impact of media influence.
Certainly not easy to fortify themselves against the growing influence of media, we should do is use the correct media, rather than to undermine the quality of our self. If we find the latest media to our advantage, so use with care and use for the common good.

Notebook technology such as for example, just now beginning to flourish in Indonesia, we can utilize technology to improve the quality of life together, rather than to solve the problem of life itself. If we can harness the influence of the media are correct, of course problems in our lives can also be resolved, but if the bad influence of media self-control that we will be further adding to the problem of our life in the future.

All the media we have today is a challenge for us to be able to control the influence of the media, let us not be ruled by our own media, but we ought to take advantage of the media are there to support the improvement of the quality of our self.

It could be said also, if we use a medium that does not exactly mean we're caught up in negative influences of media, but if we use the media to correct the influence of the media is just an effect of what we have done. Do you agree?

Cultural identity, Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism Overview

With issues of cultural diversity that is bring up a new understanding of local culture that has its own distinctive features and characteristics that are different from the others so it needs to be maintained. What happened next is the emergence of ethnocentrism view is a view that says that the group is the center of everything and all the other groups were compared and assessed in accordance with the standards of earlier groups. By saying that the tribes themselves who best represent the views of ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is a trait that could enhance the development of nationalism and patriotism of a particular nation. Without having ethnocentrism the national consciousness of a nation to maintain and improve the integration of the nation would be very difficult to achieve. In addition to the ethnocentrism is also capable of blocking the changes that come from outside either of which would destroy its own culture and society that is able to support the aims of these tribes.

Still difficult indeed to say that ethnocentrism is good or bad. What do you think? Is the development of ethnocentrism attitude is the attitude that needs to be taken by the tribal population? But the most important thing that the cultural diversity that exists in Indonesia is that we must not only understand the behavior of other groups to compare their own customs and cultural behaviors. Cultural relativism must be developed in view of the cultural diversity that exists in Indonesia. Cultural relativism capable of describing the fact that the function and meaning of an element of culture depends on the cultural environment was developed.

For example, the Eskimo tribes have always used a thick clothes because living in a very cold pole. The concept of cultural relativism does not mean that all traditions have the same value also does not know that certain habits must have hurt. In some places some of the patterns of behavior may be detrimental but in other places such patterns may have some purpose in their culture and society will suffer no such pattern unless there is a replacement. In the local context Indonesiaan, where the pattern of religious life of the diverse and plural cultural relativism is one of the best ways to get to the attitude of wisdom and tact in seeing the cultural differences.

On the one hand, man has saved the forms of different cultures living in the past but at the same time, there is strong scientific intention to refusal to accept the perception of homogenization. Cultural relativism, many times, taking the form of ethnocentrism, where for example we believe that our understanding of the known art is the most beautiful and the values ​​it the most sublime. It is inevitable that the culture is known to mediate and limit our perception of things. Culture needs to be understood as outside food, art and music and religion, it is the full amount of mental and physical reactions and activities. Mental and physical reactions characterize our behavior and of the general characterization that we form social groups, with each individual continues to be exclusively 'himself'.