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A NEW CULTURE FOR THE XXI CENTURY
Author – Presenter: Carlos A Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco
MA Business Studies Intercultural Competences for Managers Regent’s University of London, November 10th 2015
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• Current Practices 60 years of intercultural practices
• The Context The Crisis of Human Thinking
• The Case for: A New Culture for the XXI Century
THE CASE FOR A NEW CULTURE FOR THE XXI CENTURY
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Who am I?
I am a son of the sun, the stars, the sea I learnt from the music and dance of the desert the sweat, the tears, and the blood of my people
One day I jumped into the sea to navigate the deep veins of the world
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Edward T Hall - USA
Milton Bennett -USA
Geert Hofstede - NL Robert Kohls - USA
Fons Trompenaars - NL Richard D Lewis - ENG
Sixty years of binary and logic of the opposite intercultural practices
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Geert Hofstede - NL
Hofstede Newtonian Mechanical Culture a computer/software metaphor
• Binary Model • Differences of the opposite • Fixed national homogeneity
• Claims universal applicability • Claims scientific objective
• Claims cultural neutrality
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HOFSTEDE CULTURAL GENERALIZATION Fixed National Homogeneous Values
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TROMPENAARS BINARY LOGIC OF OPPOSITES DIMENSIONS
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LEWIS CULTURAL STEREOTYPES
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A SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL THEORETICAL FLAWED
• National and personal culture is fixed, rigid, stable and unchangeable
• Human co-‐‑existence is determined, fixed and based on neutral cultural homogeneity (values) within nation states
• Human co-‐‑existence is fixed on cultural differences
• Neutral universal values do exist and they are the only or even main influence on human behavior
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• Key nations self appoint universal supremacy • Reinforces national/individual complex of superiority
• Perpetuate human egotism, arrogance, disdain • Entrenches pernicious negative confirmation bias at levels; National, Gender, Racial, Intellectual Cultural
A SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL THEORETICAL FLAWED
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A WORLD OF ENDLEES BINARY CULTURAL BEHAVIOUR PROFILERS
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And…
Where do you come from?
an obsolete question
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THE ILLUSION OF HUMAN CONTROL
Categorizations, Stereotype, Generalization Are Over
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SHORT HISTOY OF HUMAN THINKING
A critical appraisal of 6000 years of brain washing
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Plato -‐‑ 428/427 BC Separation mind & body
6.000 YEARS OF WESTERN THINKING • Binary • Rational • Logical • Linear • Dualist • Mechanical • Fragmented
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Separation mind & brain logic & reason
Isaac Newton (1642-‐‑1727) Body & Mind as machine
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) Rational Empiricism
Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) Rational Ethics
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BINARY SYSTEM OF HUMAN CONTROL
THE STORY OF A SYSTEM OF HUMAN; MYTHS, FICTIONS PRESSUMPTIONS, VALUES, BELIEFS, NORMS, RULES PERCEPTIONS, FOUNDED ON THE SUBJECTIVE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERHUMAN & DIVINE ORDER
POWER
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Dimension Logic/Rational
Binary Logic/Rational Binary
Religion God 1 Humans 0
Power Leader 1 Follower 0 Reality/Objectivity True 1 False 0
Moral Good 1 Evil 0 Ethics Right 1 Wrong 0 Choice Yes 1 No 0 Gender Male 1 Female 0
Corporate Winner 1 Looser 0
BINARY POWER LOGIC OF THE OPPOSITES
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FICTIONAL STORIES OF RELIGIONS IDEOLOGIES CULTURES
¡ AFRICAN
¡ ARAB
¡ ASIAN
¡ LATIN
¡ EUROPEAN
¡ SCANDINAVIAN
¡ WESTERN
¡ JUDAISM
¡ CHRISTIANITY
¡ ISLAM
¡ BUDDHISM
¡ SHINTOISM
¡ TAOISM
¡ SIKHISM
¡ HINDUISM
¡ LIBERALISM
¡ CAPITALISM
¡ COMMUNISIM
¡ NATIONALISM
¡ NAZISM
¡ ANARCHISM
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FICTIONAL SYSTEMS OF HUMAN CONTROL
THEY ARE STORIES OF HUMAN, MYTHS, VALUES, BELIEFS, NORMS, PERCEPTIONS FOUNDED ON THE SUBJECTIVE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERHUMAN ORDER OR NOT
Ideologies
Religions
Cultures
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BINARY RATIONALITY CHRISTIANITY – FICTIONAL STORY
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Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience.
“humans are rational and follow natural law” “Women are incapable of rationality” (Aristotle)
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MOST SUCCESFUL HUMAN STORY MONEY & CORPORATE CULTURE (1610)
Success of Materialism Marriage: Religion, Science, Money, Military
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The Triumph of the Dictatorship of Materialism
THE AGE OF INHUMANITY
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The Age of Reason – 1793 -‐‑ 1807 Age of Enlightenment – 1715 – 1789
The right of Man The Republics and Masonic Lodges The Rise of Liberal Humanism
THE AGE OF INHUMANITY
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Separates: Nature from Humans Separates: Humans from Humans
Separates: Mind from Body Separates: Body from Soul
BINARY, DUALISTIC FRAGMENTED THINKING Supremacy of Logic and Rationality
1596-‐‑1650
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SEPARATION: NATURE & HUMANS
Nature has nothing against humans
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SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s HUMANS
WAR=HORROR=INHUMANITY Planned execution of human butchery
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SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s NATURE
OUR HABITAT USED AS ENDLESS CASH MACHINE
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Mind Body Soul
SEPARATION: MIND, BODY SOUL
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THE MIND
Transactional, Materialistic, Consumeristic, Utilitarian
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The Superhuman -‐‑ Humanoids
THE BODY
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Worshiping of corporate brands
THE SOUL AND HUMAN SPIRIT
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THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS
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THE CURRENT SITUATION THE INVIDIVUAL PARTS
• Economic and financial crisis • Crisis of materialism, consumerism, utilitarianism • Political crisis: failure of “modern democracy” • Social crisis: broken societies (extreme inequalities) • Ethical, moral and spiritual crisis • Corrupt practices of corporate entities
• Crisis of entrepreneurism • Institutional and politician corruption and deceit • Crisis of sustainability & co-‐‑habiting (“ecocide”)
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CRISIS OF HUMAN THINKING A CYCLE OF DE-‐‑HUMANISATION
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THE NEW CULTURE IN THE XXI CENTURY
CULTURE IS LIFE
A culture of life, by life, for life
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NEW CULTURE: AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE
“A non-‐‑linear dynamic, complex, open and ever evolving process of integrated living systems of cognition and consciousness in the development of quality human co-‐‑existence and quality co-‐‑habiting"ʺ™. Carlos A. Gonzalez Carrasco – 01.02.210
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UNIFYING DIMENSIONS OF LIVING SYSTEMS
ECOLOGICAL
SOCIOLOGICAL
COGNITIVE BIOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL
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IT IS NOT CULTURE
THAT MAKE US
HUMAN BEINGS
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IT IS NOT CULTURE THAT MAKE US HUMAN BEINGS
• It is our Eco-‐‑biology that makes us humans • We all share the same eco-‐‑biology and the same common unity, diversity is intrinsic to our eco-‐‑biology
• The universe and life are a process of networks of an inseparable set of relationships
• All energy (mind) and maper are inseparable connected and involved in the process of cognition in human interactions
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THE WEB OF LIFE AS A LIVING SYSTEM
SELF-INTERGRATE RELATIONSHIPS
WHOLENESS
ONENESS
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DYNAMIC VIEW OF CULTURE
• Reject divisive and negative re-‐‑affirmation of human categorization, stereotyping, generalizations
• Reject binary and linear practices of culture differences and of the self
• Reject behaviourism as an agent of behavioural individual change
• Recognizes the complexity, the dynamic and multi-‐‑dimensionality of individual experiences and open self-‐‑identity
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• Sees culture as dynamic and integrative sets of relationships humans/humans and humans/ nature
• Integrate both the dynamic and stable elements of culture which are understood in terms of the complex evolution of its context
• Build from the outset common grounds and seek to reach together higher grounds of unity between individuals
DYNAMIC VIEW OF CULTURE
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• Integrate experiential practices and observation skills to develop self-‐‑knowledge, awareness, consciences in the self and in relationship with others
• Offers more complex open-‐‑ended approaches based on the concept of evolving and integrate living system of life
• Seek to achieve common unity in co-‐‑existence and co-‐‑habiting
DYNAMIC VIEW OF CULTURE
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De-‐‑Humanization MIND SWITCHING, SHIFTING REPOSITION, RE-‐‑ORIENTATION
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BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS
THE NEW CITIZEN OPTING FOR MULTIPLE & OPEN IDENTITIES
BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLESS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
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TRANSCULTURE ”To transcend and evolve from one’s own existence, environment and culture. To switch and shift your mindset, to co-‐‑exist, to experiment, break, belong, fuse, merge, emigrate, escape, liberate or not, from any ‘culture/identity’; and/or adopt any forms of "ʺself expression"ʺ, from your own web of life
To practice qualitative humane co-‐‑existence/co-‐‑habiting even in situations of adversity”
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THE SELF AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE
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THE INSIDE/OUT & OUTSIDE/IN
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CONDUCTIVITY QUALITY ENERGY IN THE CONNECTION
MUTUAL RESPECT
MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
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THE CONVERSATION EMBODIED QUALITY
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INFINITE POTENTIAL FOR HUMAN CO-‐‑LABOUR-‐‑ACTION
IMAGINATION
EMOTIONS CREATIVITY
JOY
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NEW QUALITY EDUCATION & LANGUAGE
CO-OWNERSHIP
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NEW SHARED COMMON UNITY
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THE NEW RELIGION: SCIENCE NEW MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Silicon Valley -‐‑ Bio-‐‑Data Information Processing
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WE MAKE OUR THINKING WE MAKE OUR CULTURE
DATA, NEURONS, GENES DO NOT MAKE US
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Thank You
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Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco London, United Kingdom +447966525464 [email protected]