Cultures without borders in the globalized world

Culture is a system of shared belief or instincts. The artifacts of culture are religion, language, dress and food. As we evolve geographical boundaries seem to be collapsing however culture is a bit tricky as it delineates who we are or gives us an identity. Culture is important because it gets people to understand each other, trust and collaborate.

Cultures have never had borders, because cultures have never required them. The lifeblood coursing through the veins of any way of life, I’d argue, is it’s contact and contrast with the dissimilar, as well as the universal. If the skeletal foundation of cultures (language, faith, meditations on life, death and love) have been nurtured in the first human civilizations, they have been flowing steadily back and forth between boundaries natural and man-made, occasionally discharging more violently into new theatres in the form of a migration or invasion. Globalization has simply speeded up the transmission of different cultures, opened up the possibility of engaging with different cultures, encouraged a hierarchy of the most powerful ‘soft power’ cultures, and forced all humanity to confront the diversity which always existed in its midst.

Only recently did we synthesize the diverse spectrum of local traditions and ways of life into one single concept, chaining it inseparably to the authority of the state. Not until the rise of the nation state with it’s clearly demarcated borders and linguistic homogeneity did we attempt to protect whatever is “ours” against whatever is “theirs,” and only then did any cultural contamination become a problem.

We’d be fortunate if we abandoned the foolish superstition that culture is constant, that it is set in stone rather than diluted in a mercurial mass of influences, and that’s the light in which I view globalization: an admission of our own failure and hubris, and a renunciation of any arrogant attempt to bend culture to fit our whims.

The VIRUS!!!

The Global Pandemic due to a Virus called the COVID-19

        The world has come to a stand still as the pandemic has grown to a very large scale as it is estimated to become an epidemic if not handled with strict policies by the countries that are having awful number of issues as the situation was not altered earlier by different institutions and this pandemic is causing people to lose their jobs and making the lives of people miserable.

        As the history of the virus is said to have emerged in the late 1960's but still it is ambiguous to say anything about it as it is related to the SARs virus.

        The virus is mainly affecting the developing countries as such countries have not the means and resources to cope with the situation emerging in those countries, on more thing is mobilizing the people in such countries as it becomes too much difficult to mobilize the people who are getting effected by the current situation.

        To cope with such situation strict rules should be made and the policies should be implemented strictly as the situation all around the world is changing day by day.