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Review Essay: Communication and Culture

Paradoxes abound these days and among them is the simultaneous increase in international travel and communication and, I think, a decline in mutual understanding. There is a growing cadre, for example, of traveling scholars from all countries who meet at international meetings, exchange papers and gossip, and feel quite comfortable with one another. Yet there seems to be relatively little understanding of the underlying currents of European scholarship among American scholars. Partly this situation derives from the declining competence in European languages such that translations must be relied on almost exclusively and partly from the ethnocentrism of American scholarship: an implicit belief that the only things European worth learning are the modifications Europeans make on essentially American ideas and research. There is a particular tragedy here for American isolation from