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Fig. 3.
Transition of the relationship between logos and pathos
What does this mean? Probably there are two aspects. One is that the behaviors in
Western and Asians would approach and become identical. As is described above
somehow in Asian countries the clear separation of logos and pathos has not
consciously been aware nor discussed. Because of this Asian people have been
accused as underdeveloped as human beings. But what is happening in Western
countries is that their behaviors are approaching toward the behaviors of Asian people
[3]. Good examples are their communication behaviors. Nowadays even during such
formal evens as classes, meetings, discussion, dinners, etc. people tend often check
e-mails on their mobile phones and try to communicate with their familiars. When a
plane lands and arrives at a gate, the first thing people would do is to take out their
mobile phones, turn on the switch, and check e-mails or start calling their family
members. There is no distinctive difference between the behaviors of Westerners and
Asians.
5.4 Future of Human Being
In one sense this is good as various gaps between the West and Asia have been long
time headache for us. Probably we can call this a bright side of globalization. But on
the other side there is a danger for this phenomenon. Each country and each race has
preserved its own culture. Because of this there is a rich variety of cultures all over
the world. This is one of the things what human being can proud of. But the merge of
behaviors between West and Asia would mean that this would destroy this rich
variety of cultural differences among different countries [4]. It would be a bad dream
if we anticipate our future where there is no cultural difference and the people all over
the world would be connected to the network all the time and repeat the
receiving/sending of shallow text messages. This might be the bad dream shown in
the movie Matrix.
There is another interpretation for the merge of logos and pathos. In the case of
animals there is no such distinction as logos and pathos. These two are tightly merged
together in the case of animals. This means that the merge of logos and pathos might
mean that human being would go back to the state of animals. Therefore another bad
dream is that we would go back to our very ancient time when human was not well
developed and their behaviors were almost those of other animals.
