This paper discusses how global communications have resulted in increasing international cultural exchanges in seven pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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For most of human history, cross-cultural contact has been a slow and evolving process, primarily
due to the limitations placed on such contact by the means of communication available. Prior to the global communication revolution, the only ways in which those from two separate cultures
could establish common parameters and explore their differences within those parameters was totally dependent on such factors as knowledge of languages, geographical constraints, and so on.
Even though there was, of necessity, some level of interaction between the statesmen of different nations,
which might be diplomatic or antagonistic depending on the individual political agendas of the parties concerned, the likelihood of ordinary members of different cultures being able to communicate and investigate
the others social and political stance was extremely low.
Consequently the general population of any nation was, to a great extent, obliged to function in a society totally driven and organised by the communication which was possible between the
few at the higher echelons of that society. The way in which the mass media was also in the hands of a few select individuals meant that the opportunity for
manipulation and propaganda aimed at the masses was vast, and in the absence of alternative sources of information, the public had, perforce, to believe what they were told.
With the advent of the Internet and