Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Spreading peace over the net



This article that BBC had reported concerning TREVOR, the teenager innovator, happened to be a success story. Trover, has done the job of adults and of people that are supposed to be in charge of making peace in this world.

This can be given as an example of interculteral convergance because with the help of the Internet, there will be other people who will be motivated to do such an act in other countries. People will learn the culture of "peace" and that living in a peaceful world will be the key to their assurance. Especially those that are faced with daily attacks and harrasments.

Another intercultural convergence can be for instance another teenager in another country who will try to do something similar because he/she will believe that they are strong and capable to change the world not only adults can do such acts.

However, the Internet is the number one cause of this interculteral convergence, because then if there was no Internet then it would have been difficult to spread the word especially for a "teenager". The Internet has brought people together and was able to gather them from facebook and even get other responses similar on youtube. We can say that the Internet is a "global village" because it brings people together in less time, space, and into little communitites. People also believe that the Internet is abroad and hard to control, contrastly it is easier to control than anything else.

To conlude, this interculteral convergence is thanks to the Internet that helps people spread their beliefs, values and even their dreams such as that of Trover's.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Excellent. use definitions and concepts that we used in the class.