In this highly developed age, various technologies are now moved deep inside our lives. Everyday, new technologies are shown to people and we all take advantages of those. Meanwhile, some people say that modern technologies is doing a key role in gathering the world to a single society. However, others say that technologies do not exactly have any connections with creating a single world culture. In this situation, I myself have a strong opinion that the new technologies are definately making various cultures to come in a single one.
To begin with, there are various communicational devices that help people to share cultures. To create a single culture, the first thing to do is to experience other various cultures and therefore creating a common culture. The newly developed communicational devices, let say the internet can be the exact example. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing that I do is reading internet news. While reading it, it is not so hard to find out what happened last night in the Europe or Africa. I can see the latest news that reporting other countries' famous holidays ongoing and sports that they are into now. Moreover I can see live concerts which are held in the opposite side of the earth lively through the internet. With just several clicks, I can share a lot of cultures of other nations, and feel becoming the part of those cultures. Thanks to the power of the computer, internet, people can experience various cultures and feel passion to the same common culuture.
Moreover, there are newly developed trasportaion technologies that allow people to exerience other cultures with their hands. Nowadays, within one day, people can go everywhere in this world. How? Using the car, the ships and the airplane, it is available always. There is a man living in Canada, who watched a documentary of the pyramids in Egypt this morning. Since he fell himself into it, he just could not stop it right there. He went front to the computer and makes a resevation of the airplane departing for Egypt this weekend. After just several sleeps, he will be standing in front of the Pyramid, showing honors to the ancient egyptians' architectural cultures in his mind. This is not a story of people of specific levels anymore. Because of the highly developed airplane engineering technology, people can experience this remarkable story with just a little effort.
Needless to say, the modern technologies allow people to create a single world culture. The culture can be newly created or a culture of a country can be chosen to be a common one. However the point is that to make a 'global culture', people must first experience myriad cultures of other regions. In this matter, the representative modern technologies including the internet based on computer and new transportation like airplane are really the significant means helping people to meet new cultures. There is an old saying 'Seeing is believing'. Through these thanksful technologies we can experience new cultures with our eyes and hands more directly and immediately. |