Cognitive mapping using descriptive vocabulary. Discussing philosophical issues in debate form, taking a stance other than their own. Students can develop understanding of the necessity for each culture to maintain its own identity while building on the strength of all humanity. Art is one way to communicate this global approach. What sets the world in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions.
Life is plurality, death is uniformity.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life.