This unconventional book takes the reader on a cultural journey to explore the gradual internationalization of past cultures as they become the societies of the present. Eight thematic chapters provide accessible and interdisciplinary views of cultural and post-cultural manifestations of human diversity, bringing to the non-specialist audience an introduction to values, authority, international media, social capital, cultural globalization and civic community. Contemporary questions concerning nations, migration, post-modernism, multiculturalism, and faith systems are discussed. Each thematic...