cure an acceptable if not virtuous mode of collective life (Gergen 185). This is called the moral project. This project, if completed, would create the ideal utopian society. Our western culture has sought to construct an intelligibility that can be shared by all, an image of moral life and how it is to be achieved. The problem here lies in the emergence of new technologies such as cell phones, the Internet, and faxes that have expanded and intensified the domain of social connection. This is bringing about a whole new type of society and cross culturalization among people. The new question from this is, Can the traditional conceptions of self and community remain a viable basis for moral order? Humans also use symbols to distinguish between different societies and cultures. The uses of requests, commands, commendations, corrections, greetings, symbols, and so on have practical consequences in cultural life. To theorists, language is seen as an unremarkable tool that people use to coordinate activities. On the other hand, symbols can be regarded as one of the most basic systems of human expression. Symbols convey a deep and almost instinctive meaning to people. Whether it is seen as embodying violence and oppression or as a rallying point, symbols make up the very fabric of identity. A symbol’s very existence and meaning depends on whom it is representing. A given symbol represents a certain tradition and culture, therefore is there a fixed relationship between the symbol and those it is supposed to represent and to those it is supposed to oppose? Essentially, symbols offer an identity to a particular group which wishes to identify with whichever culture that symbol represents. However, symbols also can cause controversy and misunderstanding between two cultures, which locks themselves into a struggle with one another, and this misunderstanding develops into entrenched views of the others cultural symbols. This sim...
