I have decided to write this blog post due to the increasing mass movements of refugees fleeing war torn countries. Also it's been quite a while since my last blog post. I apologise for any spelling and grammar mistakes in advance - I'm sure you will find them! I am writing this fairly quickly and at midnight.
Are we culturally globalised?
As a global society our cultural integration is very backwards. Large population movements have occurred throughout time. Today, with increasing transportation links these movements have been even greater. Even with global migration of various ethic backgrounds, society is highly segregated on a global, national, regional and local scale. These segregations are based on colour, religion, cultural background, sex, sexuality, socio-economic status and even bloodlines.
Culture is made up of two components. The first is the oblique transmission of cultural heritage passed on from one generation to another - this includes bloodline, religion, family heritage, family honour. The second component is the horizontal transmission brought by our environmental surroundings and from peers within society - your socio-economic surrounding, the environment, science, peers within society. Different groups of society are more strongly connected to there oblique transmission than others. Those cultures who rely highly on oblique transmission are decelerates of cultural globalisation, they widen the gab between cultural and economic globalisation rates. Societies who rely on horizontal transmission are pioneers to society allowing us to improve and build on cultural understanding and allow progression of cultural globalisation.
Are we capable of ensuring cultural globalisation increases at the same rate as economic globalisation?
Currently, no. To increase the rate of cultural globalisation we must put less emphasis on our oblique heritage. This means the removal of religion, bloodlines, family heritage. This does not mean it has to be forgotten but one should not reapply it. Instead it should be looked upon similarly to the study of ancient history or classics. By doing this, more emphasis of the horizontal heritage is applied. This allows society to grow from our surroundings and environment rather than by our predecessors. Large groups of society still rely on oblique heritage. These societies can be found world wide and hence cultural globalisation will continue to lag whilst economic globalisation further accelerates ahead.
Currently there is a massive movement of populations from the Middle East and Northern Africa to European countries. These populations are generally very strongly connected to their oblique heritage of culture resulting in segregation of more horizontally reliant societies. In the U.K. we can see segregation within all cities including London, Bradford and Manchester. There is even rural and urban cultural segregation.
My parents were immigrants from Iraq back in the 1970s. I, myself, am not anti-immigration. It is again an inevitable factor of globalisation. However, I believe suitable programmes should be adapted to ensure integration of migrants into society. Be it: the removal of practiced religion, education, language courses, scattered permanent housing to ensure cultural clusters are not formed. These may be fairly strong actions but are required to ensure the integrate society.
I guess you may have already realised, but just in case, I am a strong believer in the removal of religion and heritage to allow for global unitary. Global unitary is an inevitable end effect of globalisation. True global unitary would be one race, with one skin tone, one language and one so called "religion" (Science).
Our predecessors did not live in the world that we live in today. Even in the last 25 years the environment that I have grown up in has changed dramatically. How can we listen to preachings and teachings of someone who does not understand our surroundings?
What is the effect of a lagging cultural globalisation rate which realise on oblique heritage?Are we capable of ensuring cultural globalisation increases at the same rate as economic globalisation?
Currently, no. To increase the rate of cultural globalisation we must put less emphasis on our oblique heritage. This means the removal of religion, bloodlines, family heritage. This does not mean it has to be forgotten but one should not reapply it. Instead it should be looked upon similarly to the study of ancient history or classics. By doing this, more emphasis of the horizontal heritage is applied. This allows society to grow from our surroundings and environment rather than by our predecessors. Large groups of society still rely on oblique heritage. These societies can be found world wide and hence cultural globalisation will continue to lag whilst economic globalisation further accelerates ahead.
Currently there is a massive movement of populations from the Middle East and Northern Africa to European countries. These populations are generally very strongly connected to their oblique heritage of culture resulting in segregation of more horizontally reliant societies. In the U.K. we can see segregation within all cities including London, Bradford and Manchester. There is even rural and urban cultural segregation.
My parents were immigrants from Iraq back in the 1970s. I, myself, am not anti-immigration. It is again an inevitable factor of globalisation. However, I believe suitable programmes should be adapted to ensure integration of migrants into society. Be it: the removal of practiced religion, education, language courses, scattered permanent housing to ensure cultural clusters are not formed. These may be fairly strong actions but are required to ensure the integrate society.
I guess you may have already realised, but just in case, I am a strong believer in the removal of religion and heritage to allow for global unitary. Global unitary is an inevitable end effect of globalisation. True global unitary would be one race, with one skin tone, one language and one so called "religion" (Science).
Our predecessors did not live in the world that we live in today. Even in the last 25 years the environment that I have grown up in has changed dramatically. How can we listen to preachings and teachings of someone who does not understand our surroundings?
Well evidently segregation of society. It also results with other negative outcomes:
- Firstly many less progressed societies are using globalised technologies and tools which they themselves may not understand. This can cause both positive and negative effects.
- Secondly, social inequality is more visible. This can increase tension between groups of society.
- Thirdly, from a biological sense societies which are less exposed to other societies are more prone to diseases and abnormalities. Research has shown that within animals (which includes humans) mixed race individuals can be healthier, more intelligent, stronger and less prone to diseases.....even better physical appearances.
-Fourthly, discrimination.
The reason for this post
I guess the main reason is to teach those who are reading it what "culture" is made up of. Culture to me is what you learn from your current surrounding and implement to improve the future. However, many cultures learn and apply from their past to implement the future causing stagnation of cultural progression.
