No More Tower of Babel: Multiculturalism, The Media & Technology

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” (President Jimmy Carter) But Canadian social psychologist John Berry observes that multiculturalism is dependent on both the “cultural maintenance” by immigrant groups and “cultural acceptance” by host societies. Strong cultural maintenance by immigrants and weak cultural acceptance by a host society lead to separation and marginalization. Conversely, weak cultural maintenance by immigrants leads to assimilation into the host culture. (psychologytoday.com) Through media globalization and cross-border connectivity, technology is playing an integral role in balancing cultural preservation with fluid cultural exchange. And this creates a real-time multicultural experience. We’ll ask Court Stroud, Sarah Carberry, Diego Lastra and Ana Crandell for their take on No More Tower of Babel: Multiculturalism, The Media & Technology.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.3	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:21.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.6	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.6	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:35.6	I always get such an incredible kick out of that intro.
0:40.1	Thank you so much.
0:40.9	That's Ryan Treasure.
0:42.0	Ryan is my co-producer and he's the VP.
0:44.4	I say of everything at Voice America Radio.
0:46.4	Thank you, Ryan.
0:47.4	Yes, if you think the future is already here, uh-uh, you're wrong.
0:50.8	That was yesterday's future.
0:52.2	Get over it.
0:52.8	We're all here every one of us now to make this future for today. And it's going to happen any second now. I do have to say that during the show, I'm going to be introducing you to a brand new sponsor who has a special contest and challenge for developers around the world. We've never had an advertiser like this before. So get ready for that. If you're listening, stay tuned. If you're a developer anywhere in the world, or if you know a
1:14.4	developer in about 20 minutes, I'll be giving you this blast, and it's going to be a lot of fun.
1:19.2	So let's get started here. I have an amazing panel with me. I don't use the word amazing often because I think it's overused, but today it's true. So if anybody saw the finale of
1:28.4	the TV show Madman, I binged it. I think I took about five weeks to watch the whole series
1:33.9	when it was all on demand. The last, the finale was a scene of people on a hill and Don Draper was
1:41.0	somehow oddly doing a Coke commercial and the song was by the new seekers, I'd like to teach.
1:46.8	I'm sorry to sing the world to sing in perfect harmony.
1:51.2	Okay, I won't sing anymore.
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