A NEW CULTURE FOR THE XXI CENTURY REGENT'S UNIVERSITY NOV2015 SEC

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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 - NLRobert Kohls - USA
Fons Trompenaars - NLRichard 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
!
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
Graphics by: www.didosdesign.com
Carlos A. Gonzalez-‐‑Carrasco
London, United Kingdom
+447966525464
c.carrasco@ecuanime.com

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