1994 Volume 44 Issue 4 Pages 430-444
A Goal of this paper is to examine conditions that are able to support multiculturism by so -called informatization process. First, I refer to “what is informatization?” and some characteristics of advanced information culture, and I will point out both a new stratified mechansim and its cultural problems. Next, I try to investigate how informatization articulate with multiculturism, and analyze the following three examples- (1) an information education (2) ethinic media and (3) machine translation. Lastly, I examine whether the informatization process acutualize multiculturism.
It is concluded that informatization process provide ambivalent conditions-good or bad. But the informatization process holds many possiblities that develop multiculturism of courses. And I add to point out co-existancy among universalism, nationalism, and the quest of ethnic identity supported by the informatization process.