The Cause of Traditional Culture is Missing

The national culture that should be the pride and should be preserved now begins to disappear due to the entry of foreign culture (modern). We as citizens of Indonesia who have full rights over the culture should preserve it instead of putting it aside with a variety of reasons such as fear of being outdated, fear of spelled kupper, katrok, and so forth.

If viewed through a global aspect, globalization becomes a challenge for all aspects of life as well that are related to culture. Traditional cultures reflecting an unfavorable work ethic will not survive in a global era. The global era demands our readiness to readily change the changing times and be able to take every opportunity. Traditional culture in Indonesia is actually more creative and not imitative, which becomes a problem is to maintain the identity of the nation. As a simple example, the culture of gotong royong in Indonesia is now almost eroded, individual and do not want to know with others is a reflection that seems today. It is important to think that our culture can still reflect the nation's personality. Traditional culture is a noble heritage.
In the era of globalization, traditional culture began to erode. People, youngsters prefer to spend more time accessing the internet than to learn dance from their own culture. People will feel proud when they can menuru style western dress and consider the culture ancient and behind. Globalization will always provide change, we must examine whether these cultures are positive or negatife

HOW TO MAINTAIN LOCAL CULTURE

 In preserving and preserving the local culture that exists in society can be done in various ways. Some ways that can be done by a member of society, especially us as a younger generation in supporting the preservation of culture and participate in maintaining the local culture include:
1. Want to learn the culture, whether just know or can also participate in practicing it in our lives.
2. Participate if there are activities in the context of cultural preservation, for example:
     a. Following the competition about culture, such as traditional dance or regional theater.
     b. Participate by performing traditional culture at the event or
         certain activities, such as during the celebration of the nation's anniversary of independence,
         holding ketoprak performances that smells of struggle, and others.
3. Teach the culture to the next generation so that culture is not destroyed and still can survive.
4. Loving your own culture without degrading and harassing the culture of others.
5. Practice the use of that culture in everyday life, such as language culture.
6. Eliminate feelings of prestige or embarrassment with the culture that we have.
7. Avoid the attitude of primordialism and ethnocentrism

The Origin of Language in Bali

History of Origin
There is an opinion that the original tribe of Bali is the Aga tribe is one of the sub-ethnic Balinese who live in Trunyan Village. The people of Bali Aga are regarded as stupid mountain people. Because the people live in the mountains are very remote and very inland and untouched by technology at all. The indigenous tribes of Bali Aga settled in the mountains because their people were shut away from the settlers they call Bali Hindu, the population of Majapahit descent. In addition, the people also consider that the area in the mountains is a sacred place because the area is a lot of puri and temples are considered sacred by the people of Bali.
In addition to the Aga tribe in Bali, there is also the tribe of Bali Majapahit. This tribe comes from Javanese immigrants who mostly live on the island of Bali in particular in the lowlands. These Balinese people come from Javanese society in the Majapahit kingdom who adheres to Hinduism. The livelihood of this tribal community is cultivation. This tribe also became one of the influence of Balines. (http://www.astalog.com/8183/bahasa-yang-digunakan-suku-bali.htm)

The Oldest Language in the World

History has told us about things in the past, very important new discoveries, and places that are known to be lost from the surface of the Earth. And that is certainly an interesting thing, when we try to dig and know, about the facts of that history. Even learn something small, like about the oldest language in the world.

Here's the review:
- Tamil language Beginning of this language development, can be traced since 300 BC, but the beginning of this Tamil language, is believed to have existed since the year 5000 BC or even earlier. Nowadays around the world, there are approximately 78 million people, using this Tamil language. This is one of the facts, which shows that Tamil is the world's oldest language. - Sanskrit Many researchers believe that Sanskrit is incorporated in the Tamil language, and this language influences many languages ​​in Europe. This is one of the classical languages ​​in India, known to date from 3000 BC. - Egyptian It is one of the oldest languages ​​worldwide incorporated in Afro-Asian clumps. This Egyptian is believed to be a language dating from 2600-2000 BC. There is quite a lot and varied literature in Egyptian. - Greek This language was used by the Ancient Greeks, and dates from 1500 BC. This language has many dialects, like Attic, Ionic, and Doric. There are different types of poems, from the Iliad and also the Odyssey, written in this language. - Chinese language The Chinese language is known to date from 1250 BC. Over the years, this one language has continued to evolve, and about 1.2 billion people in the world use it, as their first language. And this language is included as the oldest language in the world. - Aramaic Aramaic is considered one of the oldest languages ​​in the world, as it is believed to date from 900-700 BC. It is the language of the Assyrian empire. There are several Bible books, written in Aramaic. It is shared by Christians, Jews, as well as ethnic Mandean races. (https://lisasetiawati.wordpress.com)