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By Lorenzo C. Simpson

As humanity turns into more and more interconnected via globalization, the query of no matter if neighborhood is feasible inside culturally various societies has lower back as a central trouble for modern suggestion. Lorenzo Simpson fees that the present dialogue is caught at an impasse-between postmodernism's fragmented notions of cultural distinction and humanism's homogeneous types of neighborhood. Simpson proposes an alternative-one that bridges cultural changes with out erasing them. He argues that we needs to determine universal aesthetic and moral criteria incorporating sensitivity to distinction if we're to accomplish cross-cultural understanding.

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