"Cultural Segregation via Human Nature" The essay centers around our need for stability and why it hinders humanity from achieving cultural harmony. (4 pages double spaced)

Date Submitted: 05/03/2003 11:03:51
Category: / Social Sciences
Length: 4 pages (982 words)
"Cultural Segregation via Human Nature" Dean Barnlund poses the questions: "Will a global village be a mere collection or a true community of men? Will its residents be neighbors capable of respecting and utilizing their differences, or clusters of strangers living in the ghettos and united only in their antipathies for others?"(48) The unfortunate answers to those questions are the latter in both cases. Although in an ideal world, every human is an open minded, …
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…a cultural understanding between the communities in the global village exist, the human desire for a life of little change is an overbearing factor to why the cultural harmony will never exist. The unfortunate byproduct of our connate need for stability is world wide cultural parochialism. Works Cited Barnlund, Dean. "Communication in a Global Village." Literacies. Ed. Terence Brunk Suzanne Diamond Priscilla Perkins Ken Smith New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 19he r 47-61
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