A convergence of cultures & technologies

This study looks at the economic, political, environmental, cultural, technological, legal, and ethical macro-environmental forces which impact globalization Pre-2018. Key events are examined as indicators of the state of globalization around the world. The examination of globalization centers on these key events in the United States and Saudi Arabia. The issues that rose out these events are used to interpret whether the state of globalization is influenced. The issues of economic class, unemployment, CEO compensation, The Kyoto Protocol, the rise of social media, and Saudi Arabia’s joining the WTO are examined based on their influence on the state of globalization. The study concludes that convergence of cultures, based on nation-states’ responses to the arbitrage of information in the areas of economies, politics, environment, law, culture, and ethics has is a real influence on the state of globalization. The negative or positive effects of globalization are irrelevant in comparison to the actions taking by nation-states in response to key events.

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Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared

Dear China ◽

10.1525/california/9780520298415.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 151-175

Author(s):

Gregor Benton ◽

Hong Liu

Keyword(s):

Special Shape ◽

Chinese Migrants ◽

Convergence Of Cultures

This chapter compares qiaopi letters and institutions with their European equivalent. It first discusses the migrant settings and the emergence of a postal culture. European and Chinese migrants shared many characteristics, but their sending places and the communities they formed abroad differed greatly. These differences were reflected in their letters. The chapter compares the letters of European migrants and qiaopi in regard both to the institutions that kept the correspondence going and letter contents and conventions. It concludes that qiaopi letters shared some features with European migrants’ letters as a result of the convergence of cultures, the spread of markets, the commonalities of the migrant condition, and the universality of epistolary conventions, but that their remittance role gave a special shape to their style and content.

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Virtual worlds as a site of convergence for children’s play

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research ◽

10.4101/jvwr.v3i2.1897 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sun Sun Lim ◽

Lynn Schofield Clark

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Virtual Worlds ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Children's Play ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Children’S Play ◽

Potential Risks ◽

Almost All ◽

A Site ◽

Convergence Of Cultures

Virtual worlds have made notable inroads into the lives of children, affording online extensions of their offline lives In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the space that virtual worlds occupy in children’s play and the ways in which children’s participation in them overlap with their everyday play experiences, both offline and mediated. We argue that virtual worlds can be viewed as sites of convergence for children’s play in that virtual worlds allow for almost all aspects of children’s play to converge, primarily manifested in the convergence of social spheres, the convergence of play spaces and playthings, the convergence of cultures and the convergence of learning experiences. we explain how such convergence, while presenting valuable opportunities for children to learn and develop, will not be fully exploited without a corresponding ability on the part of parents and children to recognise potential risks; and for parents and educators to scaffold these learning opportunities.

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The Presidential Address: A Case for Asian Studies

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2052680 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 391-403 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert E. Ward

Keyword(s):

Educational System ◽

Presidential Address ◽

Asian Studies ◽

National Interests ◽

The Past ◽

Global Space ◽

Intellectual Heritage ◽

Convergence Of Cultures

There has always been a sizeable gap between public and national interests and needs and the capacities of a society's educational system to respond adequately thereto. Both teaching and scholarship are by their very nature conserving disciplines heavily involved with the preservation, elaboration, and passing on of a heritage of experience and knowledge acquired over great lengths of time. When one considers the degree to which our own national intellectual heritage is derived from the classical and Judaeo-Christian traditions, therefore, it is not at all surprising that our educational system should be profoundly Eurocentric in both form and content. But if it should persist in so confining a bias at a time when the central tendencies of the major technological, economic, and political developments of the past several centuries have been the compacting of global space, the convergence of cultures, and the emergence to positions of increasing salience and importance of an ever-expanding array of non-Western people, states, and interests, is this not cause for serious national concern?

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