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in Amish country lodges and farms and dine in Amish restaurants. If the Amish goal is to live away from the world, they have failed singularly. The websites are a self-proclaimed gateway into the secluded world of the Amish. In other words, the Amish have been sucked into the market economy of the larger society they ostensibly shun. Their raison d'être and the basis on which they seek exemptions such as mandatory schooling has ceased to exist.
The Amish may continue to farm and ride horse-drawn buggies, but their way of life cannot be sustained without dependence on the market economy and a non-Amish clientele. Tourism is the clearest indicator of economic and cultural integration. The Amish.Net website is awash with advertisements including pop-ups with large headlines such as "Amish.Showroom.com." The site looks like any other marketplace, using the same technological devices that any Dot.com business would use.
To sum up my arguments so far: The Internet constitutes a new kind of public sphere because of certain intrinsic features. While the Intranet may initially facilitate tribalism, the extremist variety of tribalism cannot use the Internet for purposes of propaganda, because of the transparency requirement. The Internet is the Internet. In the case of the isolationist variety, the Internet, because of its interactive nature, allows for greater contact with the larger world, eroding the barriers that would otherwise permit hermetically sealed life worlds to persist.
V:The New Cosmopolitanism
Object Description
| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 119 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 116 in Amish country lodges and farms and dine in Amish restaurants. If the Amish goal is to live away from the world, they have failed singularly. The websites are a self-proclaimed gateway into the secluded world of the Amish. In other words, the Amish have been sucked into the market economy of the larger society they ostensibly shun. Their raison d'être and the basis on which they seek exemptions such as mandatory schooling has ceased to exist. The Amish may continue to farm and ride horse-drawn buggies, but their way of life cannot be sustained without dependence on the market economy and a non-Amish clientele. Tourism is the clearest indicator of economic and cultural integration. The Amish.Net website is awash with advertisements including pop-ups with large headlines such as "Amish.Showroom.com." The site looks like any other marketplace, using the same technological devices that any Dot.com business would use. To sum up my arguments so far: The Internet constitutes a new kind of public sphere because of certain intrinsic features. While the Intranet may initially facilitate tribalism, the extremist variety of tribalism cannot use the Internet for purposes of propaganda, because of the transparency requirement. The Internet is the Internet. In the case of the isolationist variety, the Internet, because of its interactive nature, allows for greater contact with the larger world, eroding the barriers that would otherwise permit hermetically sealed life worlds to persist. V:The New Cosmopolitanism |
