On The Law Of Cultural Exchanges

Cultural communication is an objective historical and cultural phenomenon. The history of human culture is the history of cultural communication to some extent. To grasp the law is the requirement of our times. The research of cultural communication has a great significance whether to every national culture or to world culture. One of the aids is that bring about a great rejuvenation of the Chinese culture, and the other is to reduce cultural conflict among nations and to promote world peace. The substance and law of the cultural communication are relative to cultural essentiality. The chapter one of essay reviews most explains that researchers had given at first, then from the view of Marxism we discuss the essentiality of culture, communication and cultural communication. We believe that culture is the wisdom that people who are from different ethnic groups have created and accumulated in their activities to change and to improve their environment, and the diversities of cultures is from different environment in which people lived. The substance of cultural communication is the exchange of live and development each other among different ethnic groups. In this chapter, we also discuss the specific characters of the subjective, content, means of cultural communication and review the history of cultural communication. The law of motion of thing shows the contradiction that existing thing itself. The chapter two discusses the dynamics of cultural communication. The dynamics of cultural communication is a dynamic group. The basic dynamic of cultural communication is practical activities of human, and the contradiction between productivity and productive relation is important driving power. These powers are reflected by many concrete activities of cultural communication among the ethnic groups. The chapter three researches the law that the cultural information how to flow in the course of cultural communication. The course of cultural communication is that cultural information flows each other in different ethnic groups. After analyzing the characteristic, condition of movement of cultural communication, we discuss the law of movement of cultural information from high to low, and the law of up and down between ethnic groups. At last, we indicate the historical significance of cultural communication to ethnic culture and human culture. Owing to the cultural differences of ethnic and times, there were always conflicts in the course of cultural communication. Discussing cultural conflict is the task of chapter four. In this chapter, we analyze the substance, causes, styles, characteristics that caused by different causes of cultural conflict, and indicate that cultural conflict is not the external phenomenon of cultural communication, but the course of cultural communication. Cultural conflict is the outcome that cultural communication develops some level or degree but not enough. We believe that cultural conflict is not the end of cultural communication but the condition of deepening cultural communication. Cultural conflict is the way to cultural integration. Chapter five that named "cultural communication and cultural integration" discusses the general trend of cultural communication. Cultural integration is the necessary trend of cultural communication, because cultural communication means cultural integration. From the view of history, cultural integration is an experienced fact. The discussion of cultural communication on globalization is the focal point of this chapter. The movement of globalization asks for a global culture and also will drive cultures of ethnic groups to integration. Firstly, globalization integrates people's practical activities of whole world and the common activities need "common language", that is to say, globalization asks for cultural integration. Secondly, the movement of globalization changed the condition on which every ethnic creates his culture. Global culture doesn't deny ethnic culture but the ethnic culture is global culture's resources. T...