Star Wars: The Trilogy of Adaptation

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 Cultural adaptation can be defined as the process it takes a person to immerse themselves into a new culture.  For example first semester college freshman are all adapting to a new environment, such as living in a setting like a dorm. Adults face adaptation in many ways for example starting a new job or learning task required for a promotion. Adaption is a common occurrence and there are five main Types of cultural adaptations. Those types include Conformity, Innovation, ritualism , retreat-ism , and rebellion.

Conformity: Conformity can be described as agreement between an individual’s behavior or appearance and  how they portray themselves based off societies standards. In the movie Star Wars Darth Vador tries to conform his son Luke sky walker to join the dark side.

Innovation: Innovation is the new idea’s or ways to complete a task. In the latest star war’s movie the Last Jedi Poe tries to use his Innovative idea’s to save the ship in the first battle scene but fails miserably and ends up costing the rebels gas which is already limited for them.

Ritualism: Can be described as regular routine or practice. In The Last Jedi Rey and Luke established a Ritual of spending all day training to fight the dark side. Since Rey was the last Jedi she had to get into a ritual of training with the best (Luke Skywalker).

Retreatism: Is rejecting goals and dropping out of everything. Luke Skywalker did that after many years of dedicating his life fighting he decided he needed a break and some peace so he hid and disassociated himself from anything involving his past.

Rebellion: Rebellion can be described as going against social norms. The ” Rebels” were a non-conformist group which were left of good. The rest of the galaxy wanted them to conform to the “Dark side”.  The ongoing battle between the “Dark side” and the “Rebels” has been continuous throughout Star Wars history.

Whether your a Star Wars Character fighting against the dark side using every will power and light saber you own just to avoid conformity, or your a college student who is trying to adapt to a new ritual cultural adaptation is a common occurrence in the world around us. A question to ask yourself, ” Are you conforming into college and devolving a healthy ritual, or are you too entering the dark side which will lead to reatreatism?