Kwame Anthony Appiah's Paper

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s paper highlights the contamination of native cultures by globalizing influences. Surprisingly, Appiah wrote this piece after UNESCO’s came to an agreement for protection and promotion of the diversity within cultures. Whether the importunate to protect cultures or individuals is necessary, Appiah believes that the individual must be the focus of moral concern.
Appiah realizes that although monoculture is still in existence today, their distinctiveness has diminished compared to a hundred years ago. For Appiah this is a good thing as many of the negative cultural beliefs like the fear of medicine, the disapproval of clean water from foreign places, refusal of female’s getting an education is being dispelled by outside forces. Furthermore, because cultures never change and are satisfied with remaining the same, the homogeneity often which are considered authentic for the most part are always in the process of taking culture from different regions to create new forms of difference. From reasoning Appiah believes that the monoculture of Western capitalism could reach across the globe however, it’s hardly …show more content…
These individuals are different from the radical minded that we know in the US as radical Muslim jihadists. Considering all cosmopolitans as well as the one’s mentioned previously, Appiah recognizes that a core commitment of the global citizen is to have an acceptance of many values and ways of living that rely on knowledges that are imperfect. While putting all this into consideration, Appiah asks us as readers to consider the implications and impositions of universal declarations of rights as these rely on changing the laws of every nation in the