Sociology

Paul K. Feyerabend believes that cultural diversity and cultural change are extremely important for the total growth of any society and can bring about a positive change by removing monotony. He feels that uniformity reduces the rich flow of emotional, material or intellectual resources that we should experience to grow as an individual.

Feyerabend believes that our minds and hearts should be large enough to accommodate others (other cultures) viewpoints. But this does not indicate that we should forget our own culture or start considering the other culture superior or inferior to our own. Rather he propagates the idea that there should be a harmonious synchronization of our own and other cultures virtues if we aim for a modern society. We should strengthen ourselves by grasping the cultural diversity around us. We should be able to accept and respect the features and beliefs of other cultures that are different from our own.

He says that after industrialization and with increasing technological growth, the world has become a global village. This uniformity is an achievement from the technological point of view. But if we try to perceive it from a different perspective we will find that all of us resemble each other so much in our thought processes, language, food, working patterns that we are gradually loosing the scope of learning new things.

He is of the viewpoint that we should be courageous enough to ask reasons of things that are centralized or that are being imposed on us. If something is popular we should not accept it even when we dont like it. We should always find a reason to accept it. There is nothing wrong if our opinion does not match with others. Rather having diversity in opinion helps in understanding an issue from different perspectives. No perspective is right or wrong. They are just different and there is nothing wrong in thinking differently.