Us At Each Other's Throats Analysis

Communication tech and social media sites where designed with the idea that: A global Village would create a more open culture and lead to a better understanding of the lives and perspectives of others thus uniting the world and making it a better place, but Nicholas Carr suggests that it did the complete opposite. In, “How Tech created a Global Village- and put us at Each Other’s Throats”, Carr claims that with the rise of technology and communication tech that we are being introduced to new cultures. We are seeing more about different cultures that ever before. However, all this access has done more harm than good. Carr (2017) suggest that “Free flowing of information makes personal and cultural differences more salient, turning people

The growing virtual word has brought many regions of the world’s population together however, communication doesn’t always bring people together. With high hopes of finding new, interesting people to talk to, users can surf the internet and find strangers from any corner of the world but does knowing more about people really cause us to dislike them? Worried adults have noticed racist and violent content are nearly impossible to avoid on social media sites now. Social media sites should be responsible for keeping violent/inappropriate content off the sites. Being that technology isn’t going away, the world has some new lessons to think

Xenophobia is intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. If we are not encountering these people in real life what fear is there to have? After all, all people are not the same. Humans first reaction to things they don’t understand is fear. With communication technology there is so much more capability to learn about new cultures. Americans have struggled excepting new culture’s or things they find oppositional to their own beliefs. Facebook users slandered an ancient tribe from Africa. A video being relentlessly shared showed elders of the tribe putting mittens filled with an infamously, painful ant that bit onto the boys’ hands. Users took no hast in bad mouthing this tradition but failed to use the same technology to learn that it is a right of passage for men in this tribe. People are too quick to get mad and react than rather think and infer farther. When this occurs on line people usually begin an argument and things escalade from insults to threats. When this occurs in real life we simply avoid these people. However, physical assaults and harassment in the real world have become more prevalent. With the use of video recording on smart phones people can record these attacks and download them onto social media sites. The usual targets are different ethnicities and people labeled different by social