It Takes a Village To Start World War III

I don't understand the happy talk about the Global Village. If you ever lived in village, you realize that villages are horrible places. Why? Excessive conformity.

In a village, you generally have one language, one religion, one way of dressing, one way of talking, one way of living. Outcasts get ostracized or burnt at the stake. But suddenly we have a situation where the whole world has become a village and must decide upon one language, one religion, one way of dressing, one way of living, etc.

To a great extent, the English-speaking world, led by America, has won this war. Much of this victory came literally from winning World War II, and leading the world in a rather generous way (for a super-power empire).

English tends to be the dominant language in the Global Village, and American dress, as illustrated in educational Hollywood /Western movies tends to be the one way of dressing and the one way of talking.

However, there is enormous conflict over the one religion that is to dominate the Global Village. There is a Holy War building between Islam and Christianity.

There are also explosive differences between Asian and Western cultures which have not quite reached the boiling point.  Asia is rapidly usurping 
the West's role as the center of the world.   We can already see on the 
Internet that Chinese is making inroads against English as the world's 
language. 

We are probably moving toward World War III with Asia in about 10 or 20
years.  It could be particularly disastrous if China and India grow a brain
and team up together.  Then they could easily rule the world.

But what could possibly be the unity between China and the West?

Second draft 10/26/06