Today I was prompted to consider and compare the cultures of Europe and Asia. So distinctive are these cultures but yet closer-bonded than one might think they are also.
One might easily be drawn into the question of which of the two cultures is superior to the other. Such would be a quandary as comparisons could be made upon so many levels that it becomes highly unreasonable, especially when one considers that positive elements may be found in each of them. Both cultures have spawned legacies that stretch millennia into human history and both cultures have had and still retain their own problems.
While the nature of their achievements may have differed in nature they still remained vast enough to earn mutual respect, spliced with awe and fear, throughout the ages.
Great kingdoms and empires have arisen and fallen in the perpetual rain of peace and war. Great armies have risen and fallen and great individuals have seen the wheel of fortune spin throughout the spiral of life.
And now that we face the onset of a World interconnected within itself, of globalization blossoming and spawning over the surface and throughout, what future do these two cultures have in store for themselves? Will one be subjugated by the other? Will they blend together to fuse as one? Will they both fade into the night to be superseded by another culture altogether? Are any of these scenarios at all desirable?
So many questions.
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