HONG KONG'S CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

By Richard Moncure

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Cultural Characteristics

• Agricultural Age Cultural Characteristics:

  Local cultures (organized around rural communities or city-states).

• Industrial Age Cultural Characteristics:

  National cultures (organized around the nation-state).

• Information Age Cultural Characteristics:

  Globalization of cultures (organized around an increasingly interdependent world), creating surface level global unity along with deeper level local diversity of the world's cultures. Increased danger of localized cultural conflicts in post Cold War era---as people seek new identities and often return to old identities without sufficient recognition of global interdependence needs and dangers of war in technological age. New non-localized virtual communities also emerging in cyberspace.

Conclusions on Hong Kong (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Cultural Characteristics)