Name : Ayu Nuri Fransiska

NIM : 16020154028
Class : Western Society and
Culture

First Impression about British

My holiday was finished, I am in the fifth grade now. The first day, I attended the
class of Western Society and Culture which is focusing on British. In the beginning of this
semester, my lecture explained all of the BCO (Basic Course Outline) which contains of 3
books as the references for the students that must be master on it and a special rule that every
student should submit a journal, reflecting on one of those books that they have read in every
meeting class.
For the first journal, my lecture commanded us to read an Anne Collins` book, British
Life, as a reference. After reading that book, I felt that I had a free special tour for visiting
U.K in my imagination and got much precious information about British. The beginning
pages showed the reader about the territories of U.K which sometimes people have got such
terrible perception. People mostly said that U.K is England and England is Britain, so I could
conclude that U.K is the other name of England and Britain. Those were really the worse
theory that I have ever heard. In fact, U.K is a united country which has divided into four
constituent countries, such as: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. As the special
note, The Great Britain is in U.K too, but it is located between the geographical of England,
Scotland, and Wales. The Great Britain and Britain is actually same; The Great Britain is the
official name of eighth largest Island in the world and Britain is the popular name that people
usually called. In my opinion, those information are very the most important things that
people need to know deeply, even little bit short, it can give the great direction to people
knowing the truth of a country`s identity and make them avoid from the blind knowledge
then.
In the next pages, I have found two different lifestyles significantly between British
and my country, Indonesia. The first difference is on the habit of British that prefer to love
wearing suits to the office. On the other hand, Indonesian women who prefer to choose
blouse or blazer as the formal dress for working which will probably represent of seriousness
without missing the trendy today. I have ever perceived the back hotel staffs for six months
who often wearing blouse or blazer as their daily working dress when I have been a trainee in
Surabaya Town Square Hotel. The second difference is on the way British people caring
much of animals’ existence. I am amazed when knowing the story of rat in the platform
became saved first by people around that station, while that rat might be bumped and died if
this happens in Indonesia because honestly Indonesian has the less awareness to any kinds of
animals. It can be proved by instagram news and its photos that because of the poor cat stole
the fish, that cat was alive burned.
In common, Indonesian also has the modern tradition for drinking tea or coffee in
midday like British. If Afternoon tea or high tea is its popular name in Britain, so Indonesian
is often called this as ngopi or ngeteh that they usually do depending on their mood without
time limitation. People have their different own reasons for doing that, for example:
Indonesian college today often go to cafe for discussing community or academicals sake,
reducing the stress, eliminating the sleepiness, etc. We can see that the mini shop, more
popular as warkop, near the campus almost rarely have less customers every day. Drinking
coffee or tea has no rule here, because we can choose the cafe anywhere, whether in the high
class cafe or mini cafe like warkop. As long as ngopi or ngeteh with the pleasant partners,
this tradition will be more creating the good atmosphere.
In brief, those information above are just the little piece of information in British
Life`s book, by Anne Collins. It actually has more precious information for the rest that
someday I can share to people around me or I can write in the other journals occasion. I hope
that I can make my writing assignment become better in the next journals.