There was a
time when the concept of the global village seemed a distant dream, but now it
seem obsolete and a new concept may be in the making probably later on called the global room. The process of globalization
and the advancement of technology went ahead of its target of making the world as global village, rather it
has been turned into a room, where all
the things are visible but needs a simple click to access to. Man too becomes
comfort- prone and making most of these opportunities. But the development is
not restricted to the scientific and technological field alone, it certainly
tells upon the cultural, linguistic and religious aspects of man as well.
As all
the communities around the world are getting closer to one other, they will
certainly seek a common code of communication, in the common parlance a language
understood by all, their cultural differences will gradually fade away, and a
new culture will take place, and no doubts the same changes will occur in their
religions as well, or they might distance themselves from the religion
altogether. How long will the idea take to happen is another question, but the
main concern is that the phenomenon will get translated into uniformity, which will
subsequently give birth to monotony, which certainly be is boring and disgusting.
Diversity
and pluralism are the main factors which keep man’s interest in adventures and
explorations. Once monotony prevailed, these factors will die their natural
death. Man’s creative instinct and zeal for adventures will find no room for
its nourishment as all the things will uniformly be produced and functioning,
identical patterns of things will grow and be appreciated.
Cultural
diversity is one of the factors which enlivens man’s interest in exploration
and adventures and preserves identity of various ethnic and religious
denominations across the world. A person from Rwanda gets enthralled by
cultural practices of India and vice versa. But when the identical patterns of
cultural values and practices are to prevail all over the world, the world
being a village or a room, the sense of curiosity and aestheticism will
naturally fade away.
Linguistic
variations again are boon to the diversity of human population on the planet.
Because language as John McLeod puts it,”is more than simply a means of
communication; it constitutes our world-view by cutting up and ordering reality
into meaningful units. The meanings we attach to things tell us which values we
consider are important, and how we choose to differentiate between superior or
inferior qualities.” If linguistic
variations are done away with, and a single code of communication is adopted as
lingua franca, then it would definitely give a death blow this kind of
diversity as well.
The world so condensed in cultural and
linguistic matters, the member might distance themselves from their individual
religions as well. They might adopt a religion common to all or denounce the
practice altogether, the latter seems more probable. As secularism has
been a common practice among the liberals, and they try to value humanity more than religious rites
The
concept of world being a room may at this stage seems a quixotic scheme as the
concept of the global village once
seemed. Some people may be trying to get themselves stuck to their culture and
make efforts to preserve the same in the face of the threat of fading away
local cultures, yet local languages are alarmingly fading away, which in the
technical term is called language death, as Rubin tells us “In the countries of
North, Central and South America, many of the indigenous languages are also
widely known to be dying at an alarming rate (Rubin, 1968; Solé, 1995).” Similarly a large scale deviation from the
strict principles of the religions may be witnessed all round the world. It must be inculcated that language and
religion are parts of which culture is whole, and the phenomenon is symptomatic
of the cracks in the edifices of individual cultures.
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