http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/26/taiwan-religious-buildings-a-way-to-explore-how-cultures-mix/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:13:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/26/taiwan-religious-buildings-a-way-to-explore-how-cultures-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-1416234 Louie Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:50:08 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/26/taiwan-religious-buildings-a-way-to-explore-how-cultures-mix/#comment-1416234 I think multiculturalism is a flawed, superficial notion; I believe the significance of culture is not in things, but in values assigned to things, in how people interact with things, and in how people make things their own. Perhaps these diffused elements observed in Taiwanese religious buildings were a way to make peace with or find familiarity in new, foreign things. I find no use in comparing culture to soup -- it is far too complex a beast. I think multiculturalism is a flawed, superficial notion; I believe the significance of culture is not in things, but in values assigned to things, in how people interact with things, and in how people make things their own. Perhaps these diffused elements observed in Taiwanese religious buildings were a way to make peace with or find familiarity in new, foreign things. I find no use in comparing culture to soup — it is far too complex a beast.

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