Creating cultural commonality

Integrating cultural systems
Embodying sociological word
Standardizing cultural expectations

Description

Creating cultural commonality involves fostering shared values, practices, and symbols across diverse groups to bridge divisions and enhance mutual understanding. This strategy aims to reduce cultural conflicts, social fragmentation, and misunderstandings by promoting inclusive dialogue, collaborative activities, and intercultural education. By establishing common ground, it remedies alienation and prejudice, enabling more cohesive communities and effective cooperation in addressing global challenges.

Claim

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Counter-claim

There are two trends in modern cultural life which seem to act in opposite directions, namely the globalization of the economy and the rise of sectarian thinking – whether expressed on the basis of race, religion or nationality. One has the potential to create a world of homogenous consumption, a world which is united through the medium of a completely uniform commericalized culture. The other would preserve diversity through the creation of rigid lines of demarcation between 'them' and 'us', lines whose crossing would not be tolerated. What these two competing visions have in common is that neither acknowledges the full richness of the relationship which human beings are able to create and to recreate anew with each other and with their environment.