Too often we are caught up in our own perspective, not really aware of the world beyond our borders until it impinges on us in some dramatic way, through war or natural disaster. While most aspects of western culture arepushed internationally through movies, commercial interests and the media, we get a watered down, sanitized version of other cultures when they become fashionable for a time, or a view distorted by struggle and hardship.
Yet taking a broader global view can be very good for us – it teaches us that not everyone does things our way, or has the same beliefs or social structure and quite often things are not better or worse in other cultures, just – different. In many fundamental ways, we also share basic beliefs and values that shine through when cultural trappings are put to one side. Often, there is something we can learn, ways to enrich our own lives.
They are constantly bombarded with images and logos of our culture – it’s time we redressed the balance and bombarded ourselves with reminders that we are all passengers on spaceship Earth, and that where we are is not the view that everyone else sees from their porthole.
Read the rest of this article at
http://www.impact.valeofavondale.com/global.htm
