Dining at the Global Buffet
Culture is too variable among people but overall it means to share ideas, customs, beliefs and norms among a populous. The diversity of culture is great today because man has diverted from his early days of band and tribal communities. Even those early humans shared these commonalities that cohesively bound them to one another to create a society. The details may have changed from then, man has grown in brain power and has lead to a great advent of discovery of the unknown world.
In modern 21st century Earth culture is spreading globally due to the flattening of the world due to the effects of cheaper communication technology. American culture for example can now diffuse rapidly to other countries within the click or stroke of a key. This collaboration of ideas paves way for a global culture where the ideas of people will be similar. It’s almost like we are moving toward a global conscious of man powered by the fiber optic cables of the internet. Strange how man once nomadically traveled the world to search for sustenance and now that very world is behind the screen of an LCD display.
Aimé Césaire would agree that culture should be inclusive and to deny something from culture would be a pretentious ploy by those who consider themselves elitists who shy away from undesirables. One shouldn’t be picky in their foods because they not only limit their horizons but there are cultures out there still waiting to be discovered and admired.
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat
