Cultural Thoughts__Souhail_Arfaoui

We know that the Romans considered as barbarian all that is not Roman or Greek, widening the Greek definition which indicated by barbarian all that is not Greek. Today, for many people, humanity ceases to exist on the borders of the tribe or even the village. This attitude is paradoxical because by refusing humanity, to those who appeared to be the most savage or barbaric we only borrow from them one of their typical attitude.

Is crop development done in stages?

It is often believed that there is a kind of evolutionary culture, which would progress
 in stages. Africa is still in the middle ages, in reality this theory is only an attempt
 to suppress the diversity of cultures while pretending to fully recognize it, it is a way
 of masking to deny their diversity. In fact there are several cultures with different 
modes of development. The discovery of new worlds shows us that pre-Columbian 
civilization mixed amazing technological successes with gaps, it was extremely 
advanced in agriculture while its mastery of domestication remained weak, 
distinguished from the European Neolithic period during which agriculture and 
domestication went hand in hand. In reality, each culture has a history without it being possible to affirm that one culture is more or less advanced than another. In truth, there are no all adult child peoples, even those who have not kept a journal of their childhood and adolescence. There are a plurality of cultures, but how do we judge them?  We catalog cultures according to two criteria: stationary or cumulative, we consider as cumulative any culture going in the same direction as ours, while we consider the others as stationary. Progress hardly resembles a character climbing a staircase adding by each of this movement a new step to all that whose conquest. A culture momentarily stationary seems to us devoid of interest simply because it does not resemble us. Inventions that mark progress are not the result of chance, however, each one taken in isolation means nothing, it is their combination that allows success. Each generation needs to progress only to add savings to the capital left by 
previous generations; it is possible to question our own ethnocentrism by 
formulating the following question: has civilization been more cumulative
 than any other?

Twice in its history, humanity has managed to accumulate a multiplicity 
of inventions oriented in the same direction, and which brings about 
significant changes in the relationship that man maintains with nature.

The industrial revolution was started by Westerners then implemented everywhere
 around the world, one would therefore incline to think that it is the genius of the 
West which allowed this, but 2000 years ago the Neolithic revolution is triggered 
simultaneously in several places on the planet, so much so that the simultaneous 
appearance of the same technological upheavals on such vast territories and in 
remote regions, shows that they are outside the consciousness of men.

Finally, all cultural progress is a function of a coalition between cultures, 
on the subject of relations between cultures we note that no culture is alone 
it isalways given in coalition with other culture, and that is what allows him
 to build cumulative series, for example recognition is characterized by
 the meeting of Greek, Arab, Roman,and Chinese cultures with European culture.

Written By : Souhail Afaoui