Cultural Diversity In Childre’s Stories Aku Cinta Indonesia By Yanne TW

Abstract

Cultural diversity is a necessity for the Indonesian people who consist of multicultural. This diversity needs to be understood from an early age. This is important to grow a sense of tolerance for differences since childhood. Understanding of cultural diversity can be instilled through children's readings that contain elements of nationalism and stories that provide values in dealing with cultural diversity. The study aims at analyzing the cultural diversity appearing in the short story collection entitled Aku Cinta Indonesia by Yanne TW. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were five short stories that contain cultural diversity from eight short story collection. Data is taken and analyzed purposefully. The result defines that there are five kind of cultural diversity, traditional games, traditional houses, traditional dances, traditional clothes, and local languages.