In the beginning, the people of the previous towns were rural communities, and in the end the rural community was carried by the characteristics of urban society, and forgot the customs of its rural community.
The difference between rural and urban communities is how they take the attitude and habit of solving problems.
The general characteristic of rural communities is that villagers always have characteristics in their social life, which are common in their daily behavior. In certain situations and conditions, some characteristics can be exemplified in the life of the village community in Java. But with the social and cultural changes as well as technology and information, some of these characteristics are no longer valid. Here are the characteristics of the village community, which are related to their general ethics and culture.
Simple
Easy suspicious
Uphold the norms prevailing in its area
Have a kinship
Straightforward or speaking the way it is
Closed in terms of their finances
Feelings of no confidence in urban society
Respect for others
Democratic and religious
If promised, will always be remembered
While the way they adapt is very simple, by upholding the attitude of kinship and mutual cooperation between the fellow, and the most interesting is the attitude of courtesy that is often used rural communities.
In contrast to the characteristics of urban society, rural communities prefer mutual comfort rather than personal or individual comfort. Urban society is often referred to as urban community.
There are several prominent features in urban society:
religious life is reduced when compared with religious life in the village. The people of the city only perform religious activities only housed in a house of worship as in mosques, churches, and others.
city people in general can take care of themselves without relying on others
in the towns of family life is often difficult to put together, because of political and religious differences and so on.
the rational way of thinking adopted by the urban masses.
interactions that occur more based on the factor of personal interest rather than the public interest.
It is these that distinguish between the characteristics of urban and rural communities, therefore, many urban people are moving to the countryside to seek peace, whereas on the contrary, rural people go from villages to town looking for a decent life and work for their welfare, and they hope for a better life in the future.