Maggie, but in most cases i can think of they aren't merging, just riding roughshod straight over.
I'd consider the loss of tousandsof years of cultural development a bad thing, wouldn't you? We all lose in situations like that. you're twisting my words to a different context.
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To give the people their choice is to spread political power down, away from the top and down all the way to the individuals. That results in economic growth. The economic power of a free and productive society is a remarkable thing. In the west, it has permitted the real quality of life to roughly double every generation. To put it in personal terms, my father died of cancer in 1967. A generation later, we knew enough about how to prevent cancer that he never would have gotten it. A generation and a half later, we know enough to diagnose early... and enough to cure him if he does get it.
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And a generation later he won't be able to afford it. The endgame of our economic system is extremely dangerous.
Urgh i hate this year, far too busy. Ok had alittl eitm to actually work out what i'm thinking (this happens disturbingly often - i know waht i'm argueing but i forget why). Cultural diversity is no different to biological diversity, we lose somethign every time we lsoe a species, every time we lose an aspet of a culture we as a global society are losing something irripalceable. I mean of course cultures are always evolving but when one wipes out another its a net loss all round. Culture can, and will intermingle and evolve to meet and adapt to each other, and that is good. Even the usually untouchable corps make concession - maccas in france has french salads. BUt the issue of cultural loss is more to do with mass sales and mass marketing which does not allow the more diverse fringest to exist, they aren't profitable and when these companies and economic-rationalised polcies bulldose their way though another country the result is truely depressing.
yes i'm well aware this is becoming a tangent but i didn't a have time to put together a choerent line of arguement up till now, i'm averaging 4 hours sleep.