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| Author: | Bey, A. |
| Title: | Multi-culturalism in a global village: what Japan can learn from the American experience. |
| Journal: | Futures
1989 : AUG, VOL. 21:4, p. 366-370 |
| Index terms: | CULTURE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS JAPAN USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A cultural interpretation of the supposed coming of an Asian-Pacific Era is presented. It is argued that a decline in Western sociocultural values in general, and USA values in particular is a major part of the thesis. Cultural contradictions in the USA social-economic system, as the direct result of modernisation and the elevation of the "market" as the arbiter of good and bad, caused the USA to lose sight of its cultural heritage. This has caused a search for "cultural roots" among non-WASP immigrants to the USA. Post-war USA foreign policy has contributed to the process, along with other cultural challenges to USA and Western values heralding the birth of a new multi-culturalism. |
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