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Explores the many differences that exist between people throughout the world and what can be done to help reduce prejudice and discrimination and increase respect for cultural differences, both through government action and the efforts of individual citizens. - Respecting the family -- A world of differences -- A world of cultural diversity -- Respecting people's differences -- Global citizens make a difference.

Morality and Cultural Differences. John W. Cook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 204 pp.

While the expose of racist theories has done much good in the field of ethnic relations, soc sci'ts should not forget that the mere denial of race as a factor in accounting for the cultural heterogeneity of mankind still leaves that heterogeneity unexplained. 3 other hypo's to account for such diff's have been advanced. The views of representative advocates are presented for (1) environmentalism, (2) evolutionism, & (3) the historical approach. With respect to (1), the hard fact is that quite diff cultures exist within the same physical milieu & similar cultures arise in contrasting environments. Theory (2) actually leaves the central question of cultural diff's untouched, (3) attributes diff cultures to diff's in the experiences of their carriers. The failure to explain cultural diff's in cultural terms has meant that racism could be combatted only negatively, & only on its own biological ground, since no positive alternative was offered that provided a better explanation of cultural diff's. The best early organized expression of the historical point of view is to be found in certain of Hume's essays. What particularly distinguishes this analysis of the problem is its insistence on regarding cultural diff's as having come to be in the course of certain classifiable historical experiences of contact & communication. J. A. Fishman.

Embodiment and Cultural Differences focuses on the body as the equilibrium limit between the memory of time already passed and the dynamic where of unexpected happenings. The body's ecology is fulfilled in the surrounding environment within this variable limit. Each embodiment operation is, in fact, an experimental setting that consists of the unrepeatable executive instants through which, like a musical score, the body synchronises human consciousness with the context of action.What distinguishes the architecture of this book is that, collectively, it constitutes a challenge to the digital media paradigm, in which the body is treated simply as a two dimensional icon of space and time; a relatively "free form" with all kinds of narratives generated by the multimedia.The volume demonstrates how fundamentally different ways of experiencing time are also determined by the differing cultural use of bodily rhythms. Central to the understanding of this interdependence is the study of synchronisation - increasing knowledge through the investigation of how rhythm, music, chants, dance, prayer and other harmonising practices support social integration. The book also touches upon the anxieties, fears, and ambivalences affecting contemporary European societies, particularly those that have followed in the wake of terrorist attacks and the influx of refugee populations. The participating authors are all members of the International Sociological Association, and part of the Research Committee 54 "The Body in the Social Sciences". This is, in short, a book that will attract wide interest, especially from social scientists, researchers and academics in the social sciences, sociology, and digital studies, in addition to further afield, for example, in health, philosophy, education, and anthropology

In 'Cultural Difference and Human Rights', Julien Kloeg claims, with Pablo Gilabert, that theoretical attempts to justify human rights should move beyond the dichotomy of providing either a humanist or a political justification. Kloeg demonstrates how philosophical anthropology could ground an attempt to combine both types of justifications. In order to provide such a combination, he develops both a new conception of culture based on Plessner's thinking on spatial finitude, and a Rancièrian conception of human rights.