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- Title
The Ideal Society: Values, Visions and Variations.
- Authors
Harris, Richard; Yuan Zhang
- Abstract
One of the major impediments to the construction or development of a harmonious multicultural society is the fact that different cultures hold different values, giving them opposing ideas of what is possible or desirable. Often, the influence of such cultural value orientations may be unacknowledged by or imperceptible to those holding them, although their consequences in communication behaviours and interactions with other cultures may be profound. Since cultural values are expressed in the form of mythic narratives, secular and religious, an examination of the myths of a culture can yield valuable clues as to its vision of the ideal society. One of the most enduring, ubiquitous, and influential myths is that of paradise, and this paper examines six different categories of paradise myth, with examples from cultures across the world, showing how such myths shape peoples' conceptions of the ideal society.
- Subjects
SOCIETIES; MULTICULTURALISM; COMMUNICATION &; culture; MYTHOLOGY; VALUES (Ethics)
- Publication
China Media Report Overseas, 2010, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1557-1351
- Publication type
Article