Ethnic Identity, Hybridity and Intercultural Communication
2008 IAICS Conference
November 13-15, 2008
From the 'age of discovery' to this millennium, globalization have been underway and it has dramatically altered the relations and connections between peoples from different cultural background. The intensification of technological change across telecommunication and human interactions presents new political, cultural, and moral dilemmas and opportunities. Social change, cultural differences, identity, uncertainty, diversity and world order in the process of global communication demand fresh perspectives and new systems of explanation. In such a rapidly changing world, communication plays a much more important role today than ever before. People from different cultural backgrounds are actively using the appropriation of communication resources to construct their cultural and social rights, style, and identity. Communicative resources thus become an integral part of an individual's symbolic and social capital, which can be every bit as essential as real property resources were once considered to be. Therefore, to understand and develop intercultural knowledge and skills become most critical for a productive and successful life in the 21st century. Hence the focus of this conference is on issues of ethnic identity and cultural hybridity.
Conference Co-Directors
Professor Yuko Takeshita
Toyo Eiwa University
Yokohama, Japan
Professor Margaret D'Silva
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky USA
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