Cultures and Languages: Changing Aspects of Mass Communication, Past and Present

By:
Peter Trebilco
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Difference is sameness: we are all unique, but tolerance is not common to all.
If Baroness Thatcher is correct, there are individuals and familles, and there is no larger group of people-‘There is no such thing as society’. The evangelical economic rationalist capitalism of the USA is a demonstration of this, since the individual is encouraged to seek their own distinctiveness. This runs counter to the current public health model of population health; it is also supported by the principles of health promotion, democratic government, even totalitarianism. It appears to support diversity, in that the individual and family are encouraged to develop and grow, to influence not only their own members, but also other familles. The concept is of a multitude of family groups, of whatever description, living together in a geographic area, but having an unregulated common culture.
The marking of a person as an outsider or foreigner is a universal reaction to strangeness.


Keywords: Population Health, Health Promotion, Public Health, Toleration, Economic Rationalism, Globalisation, Homosexuality, Ageing
Stream: Gender and Sexuality
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
Paper: Cultures and Languages: Changing Aspects of Mass Communication, Past and Present, -, Cultures and Languages

Peter Trebilco

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
AUSTRALIA

Offering the only MPH course in Australia that discusses the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health. The UG medical course is in its 4th year of development.

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