INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDONESIAN STUDENTS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY( Study on adaptation of Summer Job and Travel students at the year of 2005 withAmerican culture)

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDONESIANSTUDENTS 
AND AMERICAN SOCIETY( Study on adaptation of Summer Job and 
Travel students at the year of 2005 withAmerican culture ) 
Oleh: Widya Karlina ( 03220020 ) 
Communication Science 
Dibuat: 2008­04­08 , dengan 2 file(s). 

Keywords: Intercultural Communication, Culture­adaptation 
ABSTRACT 
Intercultural communication refers to communication between people from one culture and those 
who have belief, value, and the way people behavior in different culture. When the Summer Job 
and Travel students lived in new environment then they will realized that signs of habit and 
response in day life are very different. The differences it caused that the Summer Job and Travel 
students felt nervous then they passed a culture shock. In this case, the Summer Job and Travel 
students during stayed in United State need an adaptation to get good relationship between self 
and environment. 
The research problem are what is the steps of interpersonal relationship experienced by the 
Summer Job and Travel students with American society, how far is the depth and breadth of 
information received by the Summer Job and Travel students with American society, and how do 
the Summer Job and Travel students adapt with American culture. 
Method of the research is qualitative descriptive, and the researcher took five students to be 

interviewed by using purposive sampling. In this research, researcher used data collection 
technique such as interview and documenter to let the researcher know about adaptation 
experiences and knowledge of the informants. Then data analysis technique that used is 
triangulation technique. 
Based on the result of analysis the intercultural communication experienced by the Summer Job 
and Travel students with American society can be conclude that : in intercultural communication 
context, there interpersonal relationship between the Summer Job and Travel students with 
American, even there are differences culture during interaction but the fact they are not into 
dissolution step. In addition, the depth and breadth of information received between the Summer 
Job and Travel students with American society affected by personality of student, which is the 
students who is easy going, will do self­disclosure. The topic that usually talked only in certain 
topics such as day life, family, job and hobbies but they did not deal with private topics. There 
are the efforts of the Summer Job and Travel students to adapt with American culture such as 
American style, the way American thinking, work efficiency and the food can loose of tensions 
to run their life in context of culture differences. All the intercultural experiences could make 
them to develop their self when they face the Americans and to enrich their knowledge about 
American culture itself.

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