What happens when two different cultures with very different worldviews collide?

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They all become very happy and solve all manner of problems when they meet an enlightened man, who has learned the way through asceticism and meditation.

That means not just someone who has adapted to the Yahoo spellchecker!

It is going on all the time in our modern cosmopolitan cities. However in simpler times and meetings between simpler cultures it has always been so. People don't know each other and have different languages and customs, but they need to meet and trade. So, typically, they evolve a kind of "pidgin" language in which each group learns to use a few of the other group's words - without really knowing what the words mean, just what they are useful for. So the pidgin language develops and becomes more sophisticated, eventually giving rise to a whole new culture and language, retaining a few elements of its precursors.

In ancient times cities which were the meeting points of many cultures, such as Alexandria, the creative genesis of culture and ideas gave rise to the "Gnostics" - mystics who had developed their 'eclectic' ideas so much that they could believe their knowledge to be at one with the universal God, a passionate parallel to that of the yogic tradition with a long historic system of thought and practice which evolved in India, itself an overlaid patchwork of many cultures.

It is an interesting point to note that the holy land which is recognised in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was conquered first by the Greeks, and later by the Romans, factors, perhaps, which all added to the historical arising and rhetorical efficacy of the well known gospel story of the risen Christ, saviour of the world. There was a cultural need at the time for such a new direction and message.

The Buddha, of course, is well known for the kindly suggestion that toning it down a bit might be a bit better for all, and more conducive for enlightenment - perhaps why the latter day prophet Benjamin Creme always included a reference to that quotation "his name wil be kindness".

If they are peaceful they will learn from each other and trade. Example: the french and indians got along vary nicely. The French bout furs and moccasins and learned about New World plants that were good to eat and where/how they grow, and the indians in exchange got, muskets, horses, pigs, some music instruments etc.

It depends on each culture, the puritans/pilgrims and Spaniards and then Americans massacred indians, first out of religious beliefs, then out of propaganda, stereotypes, ignorance, apathy and learned hatred. And a superior sense, with inequality.

Another example is when people sailed to china and japan. They got along vary well until the emperor decided to close off all other cultures contact, to preserve his.

Read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: the story of a strong man. This classic book is about an Igbo tribesman who despite his many flaws manages to get some respect and wisdom -- then when the British arrive they change things so much that he no longer has his hard-earned and recently gained place and hangs himself in despair. It is a deep and fascinating novel, whose title comes from William Butler Yeats's poem the Second Coming:

Things fall apart

The center cannot hold.

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Romeo and Juliet. Both families hated each other but fate brought their children together. The results were death among Romeo and Juliet but a joining of hands between the 2 families.