1. How different are we really?
Americans
Indonesians

2. Culture What is it?
Culture: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time
Some types of cultures are Religious, Ethnic, Regional.

3. What is the most important aspect of your own culture?

4. Ethnic Cultures primarily distinguished by language spoken
American
Indonesian
Number of languages spoken in the U.S.: Those languages indigenous to the U.S: Those that are immigrant languages: 149
More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia

5. Religious Cultures Indonesia America About 45 practiced religions
Est. 75% Identifying as Christian
85% of people that practice a religion
5 officially recognized.
How many more?
Est. 97% of people that practice religion

6. Regional Cultures primarily influenced by isolation
America
50 States
Indonesia
34 Provinces

7. Maybe we’re not that different after all!
Maybe we’re a lot alike.
Let’s check out some similarities you may not have know about Americans and Indonesians

8. Democracy Our country’s leaders are chosen BY the people to lead FOR the people.
America
Indonesia

9. Campaign to win the people’s attention
America
Indonesia

10. Do you have any examples of how culture affects politics or political campaigns?

11. Student Activism
America
Indonesia

12. Dancing
America
Indonesia

14. Paranoid about ghosts and witchcraft
America
Indonesia

15. Religious
America 85%
Indonesia 97%

16. Religious Radicals
Indonesia
America

17. Love Fried Chicken
America
Indonesia

18. Foreign Food
America
Indonesia

19. Love Saturday night
America
Indonesia

20. Love Travel (mostly domestic)
America
Indonesia

21. Country People (Orang Kampeong) Rural areas
America
Indonesia

22. So many subcultures
Indonesia
America

23. Is anyone a member of a specific subculture?

24. We both have trash and pollution.

25. We both have amazing beauty

26. Activity
Find someone in the class different, ethnically, regionally, religiously, politically, or if nothing else, gender or favorite football team
Make a list of ten similarities, and ten differences