Cross Culture Indonesia, Japan, America

NO	ACTIVITY	INDONESIA	JAPAN	AMERICA
1	Greeting	Shake hands and give a slight nod when meeting for the first time.	People greet each other by bowing. A bow ranges from a small nod of the head to a long, 90 degree bend at the waist. If the greeting takes place on tatami floor, people get on their knees in order to bow.	Shake hands firmly when you meet someone. One additional thing is, if you are meeting a girl or woman and you know the girl or woman well, it is common to Hug the person. Just a light hug, where you just put arm around her back and just touch your head lightly.
2	Table Manner	Use right hand when picking up and eating food or use a spoon and a fork. Hold a tablespoon in right- hand and a fork in left- hand. Don't begin to eat or drink until the oldest man at the table has been served and has begun.	Use chopsticks are the most frequently used utensils. Try to hold the top chopstick between the thumb and the middle and index fingers as you hold a pen and hold the bottom one between the thumb and the ring finger. Then, move the top one to pick up food.	Use your fork, knife and spoon to eat your food than tnapkins are placed on your lap. it is polite to wait to start eating until the host sits down and begins.
3	Wedding ceremony	Indonesian weddings are all at once colourful, joyous, and solemn. The married couple and guests are often dressed in traditional costume. Both local dignitaries and religious authorities speak; there is lots of food as well as music, and sometimes dancing.	Traditionally, the religious wedding ceremony is held in. In the ceremony, the couple is purified, drinks sake, and the groom reads the words of commitment. At the end of the ceremony, symbolic offerings are given to the kami. The couple is dressed in traditional kimono.	A Traditional United States wedding is a fairly large and elaborate affair, especially when it is the first wedding for the bride.  Traditionally the bride wears a while wedding dress and white wedding veil.
4	Gestures  of  Fingers	Form a circle with fingers to indicate “O.K.” in Indonesia.	Form a circle with fingers in Japan, this means “money.” This symbol may be used in a store if you want the cashier to give you your change in coins.	Form a circle with fingers, it means “O.K.”  in the U.S.
5	Transportation Usage	They always use car or motorcyle whenever they will go because avoid jamming and shy if they walk	They use public transportation such as train (sinkasen) or bus to go to anywhere or just walk away when the place is nearby.	They prefer to drive their car then use a driver.
6	Call the Member of Family	There is specific called such as kakak for older brother or sister, adik for younger brother or sister.	There are no specific call for them. Just call the name.	Just call the name without consider they are older of younger.
7	sleeping	A lot of Japanese sleep on the subways and trains. At home they often sleep on futons (but many also sleep on beds). In the summer they sleep under towels. After waking up a futon sleeper is expected to fold up his or her futon and blankets and place them in a closet or against a wall.	At home, Indonesian usually sleep on bed queen size because the bed room is small enough.	Most American sleep on the bed which is very large (king’s size), than use the thick blanket.
8	Using clothes	Using kebaya as national dress for woman. The common clothes which used for formal situation is batik	Men wear lighter Kimonos, neutral colors while women wear brighter colors and prints. In today's day and time, kimonos are not worn regularly, but primarily on special occasions.	For man uses the tidy clothes, uses necktie and shoes. For woman usually uses simple clothes (small).
9	Relationship	Friendly, give more respect to  older such as teacher. They call the teacher “ Mister. Or Miss.”	Talk to the point, give more respect to older people (teacher). They call the teacher “sensei”.	Talk to the point. There’s not disrepancy between teacher and student and they call older people  with the real name.
10	Apologize	Slightly bow your body with one of your hands reaching downward when passed the older one as polite gesture to apologize for obstructing someone's view.	Japanese people often bow when they apologize. The more serious the apology, the lower they bow.	If you hear any bad news related to someone or if you see anyone in pain or trouble, you just say ” Sorry to hear this or I am sorry “.  You do not need to say sorry for everything. Only if you have done something that is against the common etiquette, then you apologize.