Pangaea Revised

In David Pollards blog, "How to Save the World," (about the 5th paragraph down) he basically asks the reader to imagine a world where we all grew up the same; we all spoke the same language, were taught the same things, dressed the same, played the same games, used the same toys, watched the same t.v. shows and so forth. Imagine a world where we all were raised to believe in the same religion, or one God. Imagine a world where it isn't one country against another. It is every individual competing with every other individual. There would be only one government and everyone had to obey the same laws. There would probably be fewer wars and less acts of terrorism on innocent people and more individual murders. Is that what we want? One big pot of people who are all the same? I suppose we could end up where the world begun...



Because walls have fallen and there are no longer many boundaries separating country from country, Americans aren't so different from Chinese anymore. In fact, anyone (or any country) who is keeping up with the advances in technology and trade, has to adapt to the "larger community." America is one of the larger communities, if not the largest. With 82.1% of the American population being English speakers, English has also become the "larger community." That being said, those who want to keep up with the advancements of the world will have to assimilate linguistically and culturally and adapt...or should we be adapting to the rest of the world who have learned two, three or even four languages?



Maybe because the word "global" implies one world, many think it's appropriate to have one common language in the time of globalization. Many also think that that one language should be English. Though we may be one of the leading powers, do we really want the rest of the world to adapt and assimilate to us and our language? Or would you rather adapt to the rest of the world? How important is cultural diversity to you? And how does the importance of cultural diversity compare to advancing, trading, and exploring with the rest of the world? Do we want the American nickname, "melting pot," to now be the world's?



Whoever thought that what was once pangaea, where there were no boundaries, could ever happen again after huge bodies of water separated the now seven continents?