Cultural Fusion and the Defense of Difference

One day the wanderer slammed a door behind himself, stopped in his tracks, and wept. Then he said: "This penchant and passion for what is true, real, nonapparent, certain-how it aggravates me. Spencerian Morality A Warning: Before we insist on killing ourselves with Reality, pure unmitigated "enlightenment," there is still time for glorious fantasy. Perhaps the worst thing one can do to another, and by implication oneself, is to prove that their world is false, to eliminate alternatives. With each conversion, each conforming "transformation," the world "shrinks" and becomes a bit less meaningful. Anti-metaphysical Preface "Intercultural adaptation theory" (Gudykunst & Kim, 1997), presupposes the old Cartesian metaphysic. According to Ruben (1975), whose definition of adaptation they presuppose, "[ ... ] communication [is] an acting toward the objects and people in one's milieu. It is a