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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


•  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


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


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


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


HOFSTEDE CULTURAL GENERALIZATION Fixed National Homogeneous Values


TROMPENAARS BINARY LOGIC OF OPPOSITES DIMENSIONS


LEWIS CULTURAL STEREOTYPES


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


• 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


A WORLD OF ENDLEES BINARY CULTURAL BEHAVIOUR PROFILERS


And…

Where do you come from?

an obsolete question


THE ILLUSION OF HUMAN CONTROL

Categorizations, Stereotype, Generalization Are Over


SHORT HISTOY OF HUMAN THINKING

A critical appraisal of 6000 years of brain washing


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


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


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


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


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


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)


MOST SUCCESFUL HUMAN STORY MONEY & CORPORATE CULTURE (1610)

Success of Materialism Marriage: Religion, Science, Money, Military


The Triumph of the Dictatorship of Materialism

THE AGE OF INHUMANITY


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


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


SEPARATION: NATURE & HUMANS

Nature has nothing against humans


SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s HUMANS

WAR=HORROR=INHUMANITY Planned execution of human butchery


SEPARATION: HUMANS v/s NATURE

OUR HABITAT USED AS ENDLESS CASH MACHINE


Mind Body Soul

SEPARATION: MIND, BODY SOUL


THE MIND

Transactional, Materialistic, Consumeristic, Utilitarian


The Superhuman -‐‑ Humanoids

THE BODY


Worshiping of corporate brands

THE SOUL AND HUMAN SPIRIT


THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS


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”)


CRISIS OF HUMAN THINKING A CYCLE OF DE-‐‑HUMANISATION


THE NEW CULTURE IN THE XXI CENTURY

CULTURE IS LIFE

A culture of life, by life, for life


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


UNIFYING DIMENSIONS OF LIVING SYSTEMS

ECOLOGICAL

SOCIOLOGICAL

COGNITIVE BIOLOGICAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL


IT IS NOT CULTURE

THAT MAKE US

HUMAN BEINGS


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


THE WEB OF LIFE AS A LIVING SYSTEM

SELF-INTERGRATE RELATIONSHIPS

WHOLENESS

ONENESS


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


•  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



•  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



De-‐‑Humanization MIND SWITCHING, SHIFTING REPOSITION, RE-‐‑ORIENTATION


BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLYLESS

THE NEW CITIZEN OPTING FOR MULTIPLE & OPEN IDENTITIES

BORDERLESS – BOUNDERLESS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES


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”

© Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco 01.02.2010


THE SELF AS A LIVING SYSTEM OF LIFE


THE INSIDE/OUT & OUTSIDE/IN


CONDUCTIVITY QUALITY ENERGY IN THE CONNECTION

MUTUAL RESPECT

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING


THE CONVERSATION EMBODIED QUALITY


INFINITE POTENTIAL FOR HUMAN CO-‐‑LABOUR-‐‑ACTION

IMAGINATION

EMOTIONS CREATIVITY

JOY


NEW QUALITY EDUCATION & LANGUAGE

CO-OWNERSHIP


NEW SHARED COMMON UNITY


THE NEW RELIGION: SCIENCE NEW MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

Silicon Valley -‐‑ Bio-‐‑Data Information Processing


WE MAKE OUR THINKING WE MAKE OUR CULTURE

DATA, NEURONS, GENES DO NOT MAKE US


Thank You

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Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco London, United Kingdom +447966525464 [email protected]

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