Regionalism In Wendell Berry And Lewis Mumford's 'Regional Motive'

Regionalism Wendell Berry and Lewis Mumford provide a myriad of solid details and strong ideas about Regionalism and what it means to them and their region. They also provide a number of dueling details about how people should provide correct information about a certain region. In “The Regional Motive,” Wendell Berry describes Regionalism as anti-globalization and local identity instead of global identity. Globalization results in generalizing and making everyone and everything the same. Regionalism goes wrong when you are speaking about a region in a derogatory and generalized manner causing a bias among the readers. Berry describes the ways people do this the wrong way and how they should fix it. He explains that when you 're writing …show more content…
He begins by stating the fact that the people who came to America did not instantly change the way they did things, they needed to learn from the things in the environment around them as well as use their previous knowledge from where they came from. Many cultures, in fact, all cultures are universal and can change and adapt to their environment. This idea overlaps with Berry’s idea that there are nomadic civilizations that adapt and learn and move according to their …show more content…
Berry talks about how people now don’t linger enough in one place to make any memories and any sort of history therefore that region loses its history. Mumford says that we need to incorporate past and present things into our cultures in order to keep our cultures alive. Their opinions overlap with these ideas because in order to have a sustainable culture and world, we need to both speak about our communities in a way that is truthful as well as create a universal way of acting and