by: kevin sprague. destination: chengdu kevin chicago catholic family teacher alex miami cuban...
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Critical Cultural Analysis: Globalization and Individual
Complexity
By: Kevin Sprague
Destination: Chengdu
KEVINChicagoCatholic FamilyTeacher
ALEXMiamiCuban ParentsTeacher
FLAME( Ran HuaQiang)Sichuan, ChinaSon of a party foremanTechnology Salesman
Similarities Daily Life demands and Personal Goals
Participation in Multiple Discourses
Degrees of Separation: connected through Activities and Groups
At least a little critical of our own cultures
Family is a complicated thing
Travel
Struggled to learn a language and gained from it
Cultural values may swing us in certain directions, but we all face the same situations
Globalization
Curiosity
TravelKnowled
ge
Choice
Self CriticismMiddle Class Males of a Certain Age
Perspectives, Options and Impositions
Gender
Generation Class
Ethnicity
English as a Lingua FrancaEnglish doesn’t belong to anyone anymore
Additive Identity
Respect for Nonstandard Dialects
English is the tool for global communication, naturally we use it to explore global culture
Hopeful
Now, at 30, I’ve seen the discourse on race change dramatically
Gay rights have exploded around the world in the last year
Nationalism has dropped as a force
Continue to witness(and be a part of )change
ThanksTo see the earth as it truly is, small and blue
and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
— Archibald MacLeish, American poet, 'Riders on earth together, Brothers in eternal cold,' front page of the New York Times, Christmas Day, 25 December 1968http://www.spacequotations.com/earth.html