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Managing Intercultural Interaction And Prejudice Of The Indonesian Community: As An Effort To Prevent And Manage Sara Conflict, Ferry Adhi Dharma Dec 2018

Managing Intercultural Interaction And Prejudice Of The Indonesian Community: As An Effort To Prevent And Manage Sara Conflict, Ferry Adhi Dharma

Informasi

Interaction and conflict have a very close relationship. Besides, can cause conflicts, interactions can also be used to prevent and manage conflict. There are intrigue and prejudice in dynamic social interaction. Therefore, it takes control of that assessment to others, to be honest, and rational. Individually, prejudice can be controlled through one-way and two-way communication within the family. In groups, prejudice control can be done through the establishment of institutions to communicate more transactional. Social institutions can impose sanctions on anyone proven to produce and disseminate prejudices. Moreover, social institutions can also produce and deploy a symbol of harmony through …


How Do Communication Modalities Influence Intergenerational Communication?, April Pierce, Candace Payne Dec 2018

How Do Communication Modalities Influence Intergenerational Communication?, April Pierce, Candace Payne

Concordia Journal of Communication Research

This cross-sectional study analyzes the rapidly developing landscape of online communications. In particular, it studies the modalities used by three generations, which include baby boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y/millennials. In addition to analyzing their preferred methods, researchers also studied the conflicting views on other generations. This was done through data collected from an online survey administered via email and social media posts. It was hypothesized that the gaps in communication styles between different generations would be significantly different than the other generations mentioned. Researchers found that while generational differences are still present among the three demographics studied, a significant …


My Experience In Swaziland With Give Hope, Fight Poverty, Megan Kaser Nov 2018

My Experience In Swaziland With Give Hope, Fight Poverty, Megan Kaser

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Megan Kaser, a recent 2017 alum in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Purdue University, describes her experience with Give Hope, Fight Poverty (GHFP)—a nonprofit organization in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in physician assistant studies. GHFP’s mission is “to foster philanthropy domestically by designing service-learning programs that engage U.S. college students with rural communities in Swaziland, Africa, and work together to educate, empower, and lift orphaned and vulnerable children—particularly those living in child-headed households— out of poverty” (Give Hope, Fight Poverty, n.d.). By incorporating college students in the implementation of GHFP orphan education …


Piloting Participatory Arts-Based Methods For Exploring Indonesians’ Experiences In A U.S. Biotechnology Training Program, Jamie Loizzo, Richard E. Goodman, Mary Garbacz Nov 2018

Piloting Participatory Arts-Based Methods For Exploring Indonesians’ Experiences In A U.S. Biotechnology Training Program, Jamie Loizzo, Richard E. Goodman, Mary Garbacz

Journal of Applied Communications

Science communication faculty and professionals often train scientists about conveying and delivering critical and sometimes controversial scientific information to public audiences. This qualitative case study was situated in a U.S.-based biotechnology training program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture for connecting Indonesian science fellows with university biotechnology scientists and science communication experts. The researchers piloted a participatory arts-based approach for instructing and researching Indonesian scientists’, professionals’, and educators’ learning and experiences in the program. Participatory and arts-based research has the potential to uncover and bring to light participants’ perceptions. Participants used iPad multimedia kits to demonstrate their learning …


Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces Nov 2018

Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces

International Dialogue

Table of Contents for Volume 8


Notes From The Editor, Rory J. Conces Nov 2018

Notes From The Editor, Rory J. Conces

International Dialogue

Notes from International Dialogue's Editor-in-Chief, Rory J. Conces for Volume 8.


The Nature Of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn About Legal Interpretation From Linguistics And Philosophy, Triantafyllos Gkouvas Nov 2018

The Nature Of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn About Legal Interpretation From Linguistics And Philosophy, Triantafyllos Gkouvas

International Dialogue

Brian G. Slocum’s The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy is a formidable addition to an evolving trend in analytical jurisprudence that invites insights from jurisprudentially “extraneous” domains such as linguistics, philosophy of language and mind, metaethics and philosophy of action. A praiseworthy feature of this trend is the importance it attaches to keeping these insights as free as possible of prior translation in the occasionally cryptic or unnecessarily insular language of analytical jurisprudence and legal doctrine. It is precisely thanks to this feature that recent discussions on the relevance of …


The Life Of The Law In Palestine: The Abc Of The Opt: A Legal Lexicon Of The Israeli Control Over The Occupied Palestinian Territory Orna Ben-Naftali,, John Reynolds Nov 2018

The Life Of The Law In Palestine: The Abc Of The Opt: A Legal Lexicon Of The Israeli Control Over The Occupied Palestinian Territory Orna Ben-Naftali,, John Reynolds

International Dialogue

Through an accumulation of laws rather than by military means, a particular misery is intensified and entrenched. This slow violence, this cold violence, no less than the other kind, ought to be looked at and understood. (Cole 2015: 19) In September 2018, Israel’s Supreme Court confirmed that the planned eviction and demolition of the small West Bank village of Khan al-Ahmar, originally authorized by the Court earlier in the year, should go ahead. The residents of that village are Palestinian Bedouin who had been expelled by the Israeli state in 1952 from their original lands in the

Naqab desert. Six …


Citizenship, Insurrection, And Recognition: European Critical Theory Before The Biopolitical Threshold: Citizenship; Violence And Civility: On The Limits Of Political Philosophy; Recognition Or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter On The Politics Of Freedom, Equality, And Identify, Miguel Vatter Nov 2018

Citizenship, Insurrection, And Recognition: European Critical Theory Before The Biopolitical Threshold: Citizenship; Violence And Civility: On The Limits Of Political Philosophy; Recognition Or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter On The Politics Of Freedom, Equality, And Identify, Miguel Vatter

International Dialogue

Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière and Axel Honneth are representative figures of a generation of political theorists who stand under the shooting star of May 1968, the high season of insurrectionary politics in the last half century. The books under review offer a welcome opportunity to consider the lessons they draw from this event and its aftermath at the twilight of their careers. However, taken as a whole these books also reveal the limits of this style of radical democratic theory that only in a very approximate way has registered the passing of the baton, which occurred roughly during the same …


Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’T Talk About It), Uğur Aytaç Nov 2018

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’T Talk About It), Uğur Aytaç

International Dialogue

The demise of organized labor, the internationalization of capital movements, and technological changes are often believed to contribute to the decline in the bargaining power of employees vis-à-vis their bosses in the age of globalization. According to many, these radical socio-economic transformations are one of the explanatory factors behind the expanding income and wealth inequalities across societies. The emergence of these vast economic inequalities led social scientists to study the nature of these trends and search for possible institutional solutions. Similarly, the normative-philosophical discussions on the contemporary labor-capital relations have predominantly focused on the inequalities of economic resources such as …


Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination, Eric A. Heinze Nov 2018

Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination, Eric A. Heinze

International Dialogue

Alexander Brown writes as an inter-disciplinary scholar at the intersections of law, ethics, philosophy, and politics. With Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination he justly claims to have explored “numerous principled arguments for and against hate speech law by articulating a collection of key normative principles” (316). This ambitious book identifies and organizes conflicting values within the hate speech controversies. It aims to synthesize deeper questions about core concepts of liberalism, democracy, personhood, dignity, and tolerance with policy concerns about pragmatics and effectiveness. The most seasoned free speech scholars will find points and angles they had not previously considered.


The Roots Of Ethnic Cleansing In Europe, Andy Aydin-Aitchison Nov 2018

The Roots Of Ethnic Cleansing In Europe, Andy Aydin-Aitchison

International Dialogue

H. Zeynep Bulutgil’s monograph, available now in paperback, has already received high praise and recognition, winning the American Political Science Association European Politics and Society Section book award in 2017. In this review, I set out what the book offers in terms of argument and evidence, and so outline its contribution to understanding ethnic conflict and ethnic cleansing. In the spirit of cross-disciplinary dialogue, I consider how Bulutgil’s approach and insights can contribute to developments in the criminology of atrocity. Taken together the political science approach exemplified by Bulutgil, and criminological approaches characterized by disciplinary openness, complement each other in …


The Iranian Metaphysicals, Elise K. Burton Nov 2018

The Iranian Metaphysicals, Elise K. Burton

International Dialogue

Anthropologist Alireza Doostdar’s first book, The Iranian Metaphysicals, is a well-written and theoretically sophisticated contribution to scholarship on modern Iranian history and society. Combining vividly portrayed ethnography with archival research and textual analysis, he offers an unprecedented account of Iranians’ experiences with and beliefs about the supernatural. The term ‘metaphysical’ emerges directly from his Iranian interlocutors, who use the Persian equivalents metafiziki or mavara’i to describe paranormal practices and phenomena ranging from sorcery and traditional occult sciences, to spirit possession and séances, to clairvoyance and teleportation. Although many elite Iranians, secularist and orthodox Shi‘i alike, have condemned interest in the …


Heat, Greed And Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism And Sustainable Wellbeing, Gillian Brock Nov 2018

Heat, Greed And Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism And Sustainable Wellbeing, Gillian Brock

International Dialogue

In this wonderful book, Ian Gough shows how we can deal with climate change sensibly, by developing eco-social policy that promotes human wellbeing. The result is a tour de force. Demonstrating sophisticated knowledge of several relevant fields, Gough combines important multidisciplinary insights with his previous groundbreaking research on human needs. The result is a coherent, usable framework that has considerable value in guiding policy discussions. This impressive work is bound to become essential reading for anyone working on policy, climate change and sustainable human well-being.


Famine, Affluence And Morality, Owen G. Mordaunt Nov 2018

Famine, Affluence And Morality, Owen G. Mordaunt

International Dialogue

The foreword of this text is significant because Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, make reference to the fact that in more than forty years the world has seen much improvement in curbing poverty. Less than half the world’s population lives in poverty and the proportion of children who die before the age of five has dropped even more. By 1990, it was around 10%, and now it is closer to 5%, even though 5% is still too many when you consider 6.3 million child deaths per year. Most of the deaths, however, are …


The Color Of Modernity: São Paulo And The Making Of Race And Nation In Brazil, Maria S. Arbeláez Nov 2018

The Color Of Modernity: São Paulo And The Making Of Race And Nation In Brazil, Maria S. Arbeláez

International Dialogue

This The Color of Modernity is an outstanding examination of the role of race, regional, and nationalistic ideologies in the creation of modern-day Brazil. Barbara Weinstein focuses on the rise of the mainly white elite of the State of São Paulo as the prominent economic, political, and intellectual leader of the region and the country. The analysis articulates methodical theoretical approaches of cultural studies, discourse analysis, and politics of identity. It investigates the intricacies of how the coffee barons and intellectual Paulistanos managed to construct an image of modernity, entrepreneurship, and success as the paradigm of a new Brazil.What appears …


Heidegger And Jewish Thought: Difficult Others, David A. White Nov 2018

Heidegger And Jewish Thought: Difficult Others, David A. White

International Dialogue

This work is an anthology of fourteen articles on various aspects of Heidegger’s relation to the Jews and, more abstractly, what it means to be Jewish. The essays are arranged under three headings—Heidegger Thinks the Jews, Heidegger and Jewish Thinkers, Heidegger and Jewish Thought. The work also includes an introduction by Elad Lapidot and, as an appendix, Thomas Sheehan’s bibliography of Heidegger’s works (including English translations as of 2017). Lapidot’s introduction highlights the stimulus for the anthology, the publication of Heidegger’s “so-called Black Notebooks,” notes for the years 1931 to 1948. For Lapidot, “about a dozen passages” contain “strong anti-Jewish …


Evidence For Hope: Making Human Rights Work In The 21st Century, Brett J. Kyle Nov 2018

Evidence For Hope: Making Human Rights Work In The 21st Century, Brett J. Kyle

International Dialogue

In Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, Kathryn Sikkink delivers a timely defense of the promise and progress of human rights movements, ideas, and institutions. Amid a seemingly ever-growing body of scholarship on the shortcomings of human rights, Sikkink contends that the human rights movement has helped to improve the human condition over the long term. As the title promises, there is much we should regard as progress in human rights and reason to be hopeful for the future. Sikkink was motivated to write this book for human rights activists “who say they have lost …


Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, And Human Rights, David Jason Karp Nov 2018

Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, And Human Rights, David Jason Karp

International Dialogue

This book aims to reject theoretical approaches that ground human rights in a notion of dignity, understood in terms of an equal rank, transcendental/spiritual quality and/or human capacity for rational agency. It argues instead that the idea of human rights should be grounded in a fundamental moral right of each person not to be treated as inferior. It defends this argument with reference to a substantive account of what it means to be treated as inferior in the relevant sense—dehumanization, instrumentalization, infantilization, objectification and stigmatization—combined with an account of when and why these are wrong. The book says that they …


Is There A Crisis Of Sustainable Development?, Edward Sandowski, Betty J. Harris Nov 2018

Is There A Crisis Of Sustainable Development?, Edward Sandowski, Betty J. Harris

International Dialogue

This article argues that there is a crisis of sustainable development. Sustainable development may mean a value system, but also may mean a set of societal development processes, manifested in political economy and culture. One crisis of sustainable development in either meaning arises from a combination of elements under neoliberalism. We stress three. (1) Sustainable development includes complex demands about justice. These involve conflicts among neoliberal justice and rival more philosophically plausible concepts of justice. (2) Care for the environment (basic to sustainable development) is complex, and generates multiple sometimes, conflicting demands on decision-making. (3)


Not Enough: Human Rights In An Unequal World, Andrew Fagan Nov 2018

Not Enough: Human Rights In An Unequal World, Andrew Fagan

International Dialogue

These are troubling times, in which we appear to be facing an ever-expanding litany of harms and injustices entirely of our own making. Our awareness of these pathological conditions is expressed through various critical perspectives and platforms, which together reinforce a pervasive sense of crisis. We all contribute to the making of our world in a variety of ways. Few of us can claim to possess entirely clean hands when it comes to accounting for how the world could have become so disenchanted and so unpleasant for so many. However, some may wish to claim that the very purity of …


Constructing A Smart City Brand Identity: The Case Of South Tangerang, Ummi Salamah, Muhammad Rahmat Yananda Nov 2018

Constructing A Smart City Brand Identity: The Case Of South Tangerang, Ummi Salamah, Muhammad Rahmat Yananda

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Cities and urban regions have become centers of innovation since the Industrial Revolution and they continue to be so in the realm of Digital Revolution, using the concept of the smart city which combines modern ICT infrastructure with economic growth, high quality of life, wise natural resources management as well as investment in human and social capital through participatory government. Employing two (2) approaches, namely: (1) construction of regional competitiveness; and (2) place branding, this paper analyze South Tangerang city brand identities constructed via stakeholders’ direct experiences and official documents based on the smart city attributes and indicators coined by …


The Internet And Conspiratorial Beliefs: The Inseparable Pair, Muhammad Beni Saputra Nov 2018

The Internet And Conspiratorial Beliefs: The Inseparable Pair, Muhammad Beni Saputra

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Meskipun usianya cukup muda, Internet telah konsisten dan memainkan peran kunci dalam menciptakan dan menyebarluaskan keyakinan konspiratif. Ia juga telah memfasilitasi keyakinan konspirasi untuk tersebar luas sejak era Web 1.0 . Dengan penemuan Web 2.0 atau platform media sosial, kekuatan Internet menjadi lebih unggul yang memungkinkan berbagai argumen tentang keyakinan konspiratif tertentu bertemu. Dalam kehidupan nyata, keyakinan konspiratif yang disebarluaskan melalui Internet telah menyebabkan efek sosial yang parah khususnya mengenai vaksinasi. Adalah Internet yang membuat keyakinan konspiratif anti vaksinasi menjadi terkenal yang mengakibatkan program vaksinasi terhambat di beberapa negara termasuk di Indonesia.

Despite its quite young age, the Internet has …


The Impact Of Social Media Campaign Time Scheduling On First-Time Voters’ Political Knowledge: An Experiment On Social Media Line Campaign Among First-Time Voters In East Jakarta, Novlyanti Rizkita Putri Nov 2018

The Impact Of Social Media Campaign Time Scheduling On First-Time Voters’ Political Knowledge: An Experiment On Social Media Line Campaign Among First-Time Voters In East Jakarta, Novlyanti Rizkita Putri

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini membahas dampak dari penjadwalan kampanye di media sosial LINE terhadap pengetahuan politik pemilih yang memilih pertama kali. Jakarta Timur dipilih sebagai ruang lingkup penelitian karena memiliki jumlah pemilih yang memilih pertama kali tertinggi di DKI Jakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif yang digabungkan dengan eksperimen murni (two-group posttest-only design) dalam mengumpulkan data. Pengujian hipotesis dengan T-Test sampel independen. Temuan dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan yang signifikan antara pemilih yang memilih pertama kali yang menerima informasi tentang kampanye politik di prime time dan di waktu non-prime. Perbedaan ini menghasilkan kesimpulan bahwa ada dampak yang signifikan dari penjadwalan …


Digital Body: Horcrux Of Extended Self In Post-Human Era, Sari Monik Agustin Nov 2018

Digital Body: Horcrux Of Extended Self In Post-Human Era, Sari Monik Agustin

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Tubuh yang semula diganggu gugat telah berubah karena dengan inovasi teknologi yang ada, tubuh dapat diubah dan direkonstruksi seperti mengganti bagian-bagian mesin. Di era digital ini, tubuh dapat ditransformasikan menjadi bentuk non-material dan direkonstruksi. Data digital dapat disematkan dan avatar dapat dibentuk atau dibuat. Kesimpulan dari tulisan ini, tubuh digital adalah tubuh non-material yang mengandung horcrux, objek digital dari kata-kata dan pemikiran yang tinggal, dalam bentuk data digital dan avatar, yang mengacu pada perluasan diri di era pasca-manusia dengan karakteristik diri yang dikendalikan-dematerialisasi, diri hiperrealitas, diri dengan dukungan sosial, diri yang dikembangkan, dan diri yang berafi liasi sosial.

Body that …


What Makes People Use Digital Library?: A Study Of Ijakarta Users, Dini Ratnasari, Hendriyani Hendriyani Nov 2018

What Makes People Use Digital Library?: A Study Of Ijakarta Users, Dini Ratnasari, Hendriyani Hendriyani

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Layanan publik telah mengalami transformasi digital. Pemerintah Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta telah menyediakan perpustakaan digital iJakarta sebagai cara untuk mengembangkan rencana Kota Jakarta Pintar. Dengan mengembangkan model konseptual yang terkait dengan minat orang untuk menggunakan aplikasi perpustakaan digital, penelitian ini menggunakan kerangka teori Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) Memberikan penjelasan tentang pengaruh persepsi kemudahan penggunaan dan persepsi kegunaan pada minat menggunakan iJakarta, dan (2) Menggambarkan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi hubungan keempat konsep, yaitu pengalaman, domain pengetahuan, aksesibilitas, dan relevansi. Data dikumpulkan dalam survei pada 130 pengguna iJakarta menggunakan sampel acak sederhana. Menggunakan analisis jalur, hasil penelitian …


Hyperreality Among Defense Of The Ancients 2’S Players, Putri Surya Cempaka, Johannes Haryatmoko Nov 2018

Hyperreality Among Defense Of The Ancients 2’S Players, Putri Surya Cempaka, Johannes Haryatmoko

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Studi ini meneliti kondisi dan praktik hiperrealitas di antara para pemain game online Dota 2 yang menunjukkan perspektif yang disebut pasca-manusia, sebuah perspektif yang percaya bahwa kemajuan teknologi akan memudahkan kehidupan secara umum. Dalam istilah kritis, ini mengurangi akal sehat manusia karena percaya bahwa teknologi telah mengambil alih fungsi manusia. Dalam memahami konsep post-human, dalam penelitian ini, kami merujuk kondisi post-human sebagai praktik hiperrealitas dengan berfokus pada persepsi visual para pemain Dota 2 selama aktivitas permainan mereka dan makna tentang permainan video mereka. Penelitian ini menggunakan konsep simulakra, simulasi, dan hiperrealitas menurut Jean Baudrillard. Dalam kondisi hiperrealitas, representasi yang tertanam …


Presenting Local Wisdom: A Multimodal Analysis Of Sedekah Gunung Merapi Video As A Tourism Promotion In Boyolali Regency, Julianne Indah Rachmawati, Warto Warto, Titis Srimuda Pitana Nov 2018

Presenting Local Wisdom: A Multimodal Analysis Of Sedekah Gunung Merapi Video As A Tourism Promotion In Boyolali Regency, Julianne Indah Rachmawati, Warto Warto, Titis Srimuda Pitana

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Upacara tradisional Sedekah Gunung adalah salah satu kearifan lokal yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat Desa Lencoh, Selo, Kabupaten Boyolali. Upacara ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan rasa terima kasih penduduk desa dan meminta perlindungan Tuhan dari bencana. Upacara ini memiliki potensi karena sering menjadi daya tarik wisata. Liputan media diperlukan untuk menyebarkan konten dan informasi tentang upacara ini. Salah satu contoh liputan media tentang tradisi ini adalah video yang diunggah di situs berbagi video YouTube bernama Sedekah Gunung merapi. Tulisan ini menganalisis beberapa aspek: (1) Apa sarana yang digunakan dalam video Sedekah Gunung Merapi untuk menghadirkan Sedekah Gunung sebagai objek wisata Kabupaten Boyolali? …


Cigarette As A Tool For Representing Masculinity In Indonesian Left-Wing Films, Redi Panuju, Daniel Susilo, Harliantara Harliantara Nov 2018

Cigarette As A Tool For Representing Masculinity In Indonesian Left-Wing Films, Redi Panuju, Daniel Susilo, Harliantara Harliantara

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Tulisan ini membahas representasi maskulinitas dalam film-film sayap kiri Indonesia, yang dibuat sebelum dan sesudah reformasi 1998. Film sayap kiri adalah film yang menceritakan tentang politik pada tahun 1965 dan berfokus fokus pada kontroversi Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI). Beberapa film sayap kiri memposisikan PKI dan simpatisannya sebagai dalang di balik kudeta tahun 1965, tetapi ada juga yang menempatkan tokoh dan simpatisan komunis sebagai korban kekejaman pihak lain. Penelitian ini mempelajari tiga film, yaitu Pengkhianatan G30 S PKI, Sang Penari, dan Jagal-Act of Killing. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis hubungan yang didasarkan pada konsep hubungan kekuasaan. Penelitian ini …


Cultural Variations And Socio-Ecocultural Understanding On Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Awang Rozaimie Oct 2018

Cultural Variations And Socio-Ecocultural Understanding On Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Awang Rozaimie

The Qualitative Report

Cross-cultural adaptation is a challenging process while sojourning abroad. The inability to understand cultural variation triggers psychological, physical or behavioral difficulties and maladjustment or misunderstanding. Socio-ecocultural underestimation is the root of intercultural resistance, stereotyping, ethnocentrism and racist sentiments among sojourners. Most of the cross-cultural adjustment studies have quantitatively demonstrated factors and predictors of adaptation success. However, the specific forms of cultural variation that impacted sojourning adaptability is blindly explained. Hence, this phenomenological paper autoethnographically observed the socio-ecocultural environment while sojourning in New Zealand. The findings highlighted that cultural awareness and sensitivity assist sojourner’s cross-cultural adaptability due to the socio-ecocultural variation.