What is a dialogue of civilizations? To find out, we suggest that you read the article.
Globalization is making adjustments to the lives of people of all races, on all continents. The earlier civilization of the East, wise by the experience of a thousand-year history, is today opposed to the young and uncontrollably rushing forward in the wake of the scientific and technological progress of Western civilization. Which civilization will remain, will be more able to destroy the enemy and survive?
The history of confrontations is a thing of the past
History teaches us that barbarians always win the war, in our case it is clearly the West. For barbarians, the concept of “dialogue of civilizations” is inaccessible. They only realized that taking away is easier than creating. Islam is the youngest religion and the most aggressive, as Christianity was during the Crusades.
But besides the confrontations between the East and the West, the confrontation between the USA, Russia and the countries of Western Europe is much stronger, sharper and more relevant, that is, the struggle is more internal. This is the struggle of technologies, and the struggle of religions (today it is Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Ukraine), the struggle for resources (primarily for oil in the Near and Middle East), the ideological war of states and their groups with each other. This struggle often results in local wars, armed conflicts, and exhausts those participating in it.
And the East lives quietly and silently according to its own laws, realizing that "a bad world is better than a good war." No matter how South Korea, China, India or Japan relate to each other, they have coexisted peacefully since World War II. Having exhausted natural resources, many different religions, honing, perfecting and often using stolen Western technologies and not forgetting its centuries-old traditions, the present East lives on.
Negotiations are already slow
Dialogue of civilizations - this means listening to another and speaking out for yourself. And we repeatedly observe the process in the work of various international organizations, including representatives of eastern and western cultures: doctors, politicians, students, athletes, finally. A better understanding of each other, a joint fight against diseases, problems of the modern world, including the environment, the energy crisis or global warming - these are signs of a dialogue among civilizations.
It is difficult to imagine modern medicine in any country without acupuncture technology, which the East has much better than the West. And doctors of the East study surgical operations in clinics in Europe, Russia and America.
An increase in the number of students of Western languages in the developed countries of the East and a growing interest in oriental languages in the West and in America. What is it? One of the brightest signs of today's dialogue of civilizations is the East-West.
The role of youth in conducting "negotiations"
Moreover, young people participate in this dialogue much more actively and more positively than the older generation, constantly and massively exchanging in the context of pop culture: light music, songs, dances, movies. Internet technologies make communication and communication between individual representatives of eastern and western cultures even closer and stronger. Already appearing international youth slangs and more. The dialogue of civilizations for young men and women is today's reality.
Destruction of traditions is simply inevitable
No matter how outraged the demagogues are, young people in the West and East are striving for something new: reading new books or not reading at all, sitting around computers for days, listening to incomprehensibly what kind of music is so loud that, it seems, what kind of music it is. He does not care about folk art in music, dance and other things, he does not imitate the traditions and ideals of his culture, he does not listen to his parents, with a few exceptions, of course. Unlike conservative parents, children do not want warmth and comfort, but an exciting and interesting life. If they inspire hatred of a certain group of people, convince that only war is good, as it will make you king, we will grow soldiers with medieval consciousness, regardless of whether in the West or East, we will raise fascists.
Traditions should change over time, whether we like it or not, both in the technogenic civilization of the West and in the traditional society of the East. The traditions of the East enter the civilization of the West as feng shui, the eastern calendar or martial arts, and the East accepts the inevitability of the transition of young people to a Western lifestyle with night clubs, western freedoms and democracy. And where to go! It is not enough to say that East and West influence each other, the dialogue of civilizations is today for communicating young people a swift and deep exchange of everything that they have, they love, what they are proud of. The obstacles to this communication will be destroyed. Those who doubt this can look at the performances of Korean pop groups in the Middle East.
The problem of dialogue. How solvable?
The problem of the dialogue of civilizations, like any other, is the desire and ability to speak. The opportunity to speak clearly is. And this is not only literally good command of today's English, whose subspecies, such as “Singlish” or “Chinglish,” are already being studied by linguists from different countries. After all, there are other languages of communication: art, sports, medicine, other types of human activity. The role of Russia in this dialogue has not yet been determined. Our country is too original, multinational, huge in territory and inertia. It follows its own path, which has much in common with both the West and the East, and remains a powerful division between the two civilizations, actively communicating with both Western and Eastern states.
The role of the media in solving this problem
The dialogue of civilizations - what is this, if not a far-fetched difficulty woven by nimble journalists from political, economic and religious differences? However, it can at any time become a trump card in the sleeve of unscrupulous politicians who create confrontation, not much different from each other. The dialogue of neighbors of the most diverse in age, religion, nationality will quickly develop into friendship with the joint solution of burning problems. And humanity has plenty of them today.