Many current world troubles stem from failing to understand culturally alien societies
Evidence
The rapid changes of recent years have forced usâsometimes painfullyâto realize that the world is a much more diverse place than we had previously thought. As well as other countries and nations, there are also other cultures and civilizations, separated from us by differences far greater than those of nationality or even of language. In the modern world, we may ïŹnd ourselves obliged to deal with societies professing different religions, nurtured on different scriptures and classics, formed by different experiences, and cherishing different aspirations. Not a few of our troubles at the present time spring from a failure to recognize or even see these differences, an inability to achieve some understanding of the ways of what were once remote and alien societies. They are now no longer remote, and they should not be alien. â Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1867
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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