Samuel Jones
Researcher
Samuel Jones is a researcher at Demos. His research interests include culture and the arts, museums and galleries, creativity and the communication of ideas and knowledge through the cultural sector. In particular, he is interested in cross-cultural communications and the role of culture in international relations. In other work, he has focused on Global English and conversations. Recently, he has undertaken research in both the US and China.
at 10:16am
on Thursday, 17th January 2008
Literature, the arts and cultural production are one of the most crucial means by which we learn about norms, behaviours, outlooks and attitudes.
In Cultural Diplomacy, we argued that we need to start thinking about cultural literacy, and how we build not only greater awareness of the many cultures that we encounter, but also to take that beyond simply informing of facts to providing skills to accommodate and respond to them in every situation, everyday or institutional, in which we meet them. One of the ways we could go about doing this is through building engagement with everyday culture from around the world.
In that light, this article in The Guardian, whihc points out the gap between ideas of China's importance in the world today, and general knowledge of its contemporary and everyday culture makes for interesting reading.
In Cultural Diplomacy, we argued that we need to start thinking about cultural literacy, and how we build not only greater awareness of the many cultures that we encounter, but also to take that beyond simply informing of facts to providing skills to accommodate and respond to them in every situation, everyday or institutional, in which we meet them. One of the ways we could go about doing this is through building engagement with everyday culture from around the world.
In that light, this article in The Guardian, whihc points out the gap between ideas of China's importance in the world today, and general knowledge of its contemporary and everyday culture makes for interesting reading.
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