Culture Must Conquer the Globe (Globalism)

“How important is it to learn another language and culture…?” MC

Culture Must Conquer the Globe (Globalism)

By

Dr. Dennis L. Siluk Ed.D.


Definition:

Culture, the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another, transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.

Also, culture also refers to refined music, art, and literature; one who is well versed in these subjects is considered “cultured.”

Also culture is language use, tool making, and conscious regulation of sex, essential
features that distinguish humans from other animals.




The Article

Culture. — How important is culture and learning another language, and why? If we are to protect the world and its resources, and other essentials, we must first decide at what point we will oppose those who wish to stop the movement of world cultures, in what is called Globalism.

The quality in a person or society comes to blossom out of the concern for what is regarded as excellence in the arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, it shows to the world at large, a particular form or stage of that civilization, its past, present, its potential future. Also it shows its developmental behaviors and beliefs—the world is turning towards globalization, and everyone is watching everyone.
Already the world has moved boldly into this interconnecting web that is circling the globe (the internet and global interests pushing it along), and this new global-culture has penetrated politically, electronically, into every cultural aspect of mankind (an example, you have old culture using new cultural cellphones in the Andes).
The sum total of our ways of living among one another, remains in cultural groups of human beings worldwide, this new culture will be transmitted to the next generation. This in itself is reason enough, most essential that we all look at other cultures, their customs, ways of life, traditions, language; learn at least in part, another’s culture, so we can communicate with them better.
The world is in need of oil, water, food, and other essentials, without attacking one another, forcing one another to use their defenses to get what they need—for without global reasoning, another country will try anything short of war to get what they want (and sometimes war), again this demands we know their culture, their language.
This new culture that is forming around old cultures, interconnecting with the whole world, like the internet, carries new patterns, traits, and products, and will be and is, considered an expression of this period, for the world population, this is the culture of Globalism…and because of this new world order, the world is becoming increasingly perilous, and knowing other languages is a must for the 21st Century student and leader, in any country, to lead his or her country: call it enlightenment, resulting from training or education.

The only way to move forward in this new global-connecting world is to conquer it, make a peace with it, and have a true working agreement with it. Now is the time to prepare in order to be able to take advantage of the confused situation that might arise in it, we are in essence, all successfully invading one another’s country, and the better we are prepared culturally, the better we stand among the many. In Peru, today—the youth will have to make hard and heavy decisions that are necessary for her to move forward, that her people will count on. The quest to the Peruvian reader reading this article is: “Can she count on any of you?”


No: 479 (Magazine article-story for: Colegio Ingenieria; Huancayo, Peru) written 9-26-2009 © by Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.