DEFINING COMMUNITY
By David Scott Clegg
Dialogue of civilizations is a necessity as humanity pursues a shared future
The author is vice chair of the U.S.-China Youth Education Solutions Foundation and founder of UNITE Education
Communication and collaboration—the ability to listen, understand, then do something meaningful with the information provided through openness and exchange—has been fundamental to the growth and development of the individual,societies, and humanity. It still remains.
到2022年，旅游基础设施和公共服务设施进一步完善，乡村旅游服务质量和水平全面提升，富农惠农作用更加凸显，基本形成布局合理、类型多样、功能完善、特色突出的乡村旅游发展格局。
This reality is at the center of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations(CDAC), their histories, cultural interactions,challenges and opportunities as Asian nations. Under the auspices of President Xi Jinping, China seeks to build a community with a shared future for humanity. Xi in his opening address captured the inherent challenge and opportunity for the many heads of state and high-level government representatives in attendance to harness the power of diversity while finding common ground. He focused on four main points: mutual respect and equality; appreciating the beauty of all civilizations; openness and mutual learning;and keeping pace with the times through innovation.
At the heart of all of this is communication and collaboration, which has at its center listening and learning. And at the center of all listening and learning, a respect for all representation and the willingness to trust.
Trust is no easy action. Trusting strangers—those who look, speak, act, believe and behave differently than we do—is at times a difficult step to take, yet an essential one if one is to have the social capital required to go with the human capital and societal progress we desire. In order to trust someone,whether an individual or a nation, we must have a working understanding of who they are and where they come from. That is, their history, their story.
Humanity's future is dependent upon our ability to move our consciousness ever upward,to evolve our thinking and to recognize our strength in diversity
Leading economists and scientists have identified that the most marginalized in society will be those most affected by the resulting effect of global warming. A shared future that is worthy of living must be shared proportionately, in input and outcome, in obstacle and opportunity. Otherwise, it is not really shared.Such interacting is the only way civilizations—and humanity for that matter—can maintain a strong vitality.
Key issues
Second, a shared future requires that we all have a valued voice in the dialogue on what a shared future may look like, seen as equals in this exchange. This is of particular importance given the immense disparities between the haves, have nots and seemingly will never haves. The world is carved unevenly today. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,in 2012, 5 percent of the world’s population held 71.6 percent of the world’s wealth. And a 2013 study by the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute suggests a mere 90 companies account for nearly two thirds of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the primary contributor to climate change.
2.更新教学内容，提高教育质量，以合理的教学计划和课程的调整是不够的。由于改革形势的变化和科学技术的迅猛发展，将为每个学科体系内容陈旧的观念带来冲击。教学内容要更新，本学科的新理论和新的研究结果反映了教材和教学内容。所以他们能站在一个更高的水平，了解学科前沿动态和发展趋势，使得创新成果。
First, we must understand the histories, the storylines of those with whom we seek to build such a community, to appreciate the beauty of each, as Xi said. Asia is filled with variations,along with diverse pathways to degrees of peace and prosperity. We must learn from each,be a borrower of what is best and share what we know so that we may see and then be a greater version of ourselves—as nations, as Asia and as a world.
Many other Asian civilizations could lay similar claims. All have a history, heritage, a sense of self and pride. All have experienced dark chapters in their storied past and grown by learning from it. Asian civilizations have enjoyed long periods of peace amid global turmoil in times past.And they must draw from these experiences in anchoring greater peace and prosperity in this century, one that holds much promise for the region and the world.
This is where so often we fall short in our attempts to build a community with a shared future for humanity. To do so requires a shared consideration of key issues.
A third consideration for humanity involves what kind of human being we foresee. And how kind this human being will be.Wise masters have historically spoken to us about the need for kindness. Confucius once reminded, “To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue;these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
We will be tested as to our capacity for kindness in the coming age. I refer to the future of work and its relationship to our ability to support our basic needs and those of our families and communities. Current trends indicate a “perfect storm” approaching, a change in global dynamics that will require a redefining of what it means to be human, our relationship to life and to one another. It will bring gravity to our level of soul generosity.
R：i-j的路径集合，路径r=1，2，…,|R|，考虑到南沙港水上“巴士”及拖车运输与深圳港水上“巴士”有竞争关系，故主要路径如下：
崇智。传统小农经济往往仅凭经验进行简单生产，无视市场取向，忽略技术更新。在市场经济和信息社会条件下，不适应是必然的。近年来，一些地区个别品种的水果蔬菜烂在地里田里无人问津的事情屡有发生，其重要原因就是市场信息失灵。现代社会，每天都有海量信息传播，无时无处不在进行技术更新。农民无论进行农业生产，还是务工经商，都必须对海量信息进行甄别筛选，把握市场信息，更新技术技能。唯有如此，方能适应社会化大生产。这就要求重视自身继续教育，提高智力水平，掌握信息技术，不断适应社会进步的要求。
Strength in diversity
As the CDAC seeks to highlight, diversity is our strength as nations, as civilizations and as human beings. Maintaining our cultural diversity while promoting our commonality is requisite to mutual peace, prosperity and our collective viability. If it were intended to be different, either through divine invention or through natural selection, then diversity would have yielded to will. Yet it has not. This is due to the indisputable reality that diversity is our opportunity, maybe even our savior when faced with the global issues of today.
Workers from China and Uzbekistan repair the roof of a mosque in Khiva, Uzbekistan,on April 22
We are entering a new period in human evolution. It is a period where only the collective may survive and thrive. It is a consciousness forged through inclusiveness, adaptiveness, innovation and cooperation. An ability to change,and to do so together. Through this, unprecedented growth awaits.
China’s story—its history and its people—is a shared story as well and as compelling as any nation’s narrative. Its dynastic chapters reveal a civilization that has endured time and tests,provided some of the greatest innovations the world has ever known and been beneficial to the region and the world without any historical tendency for domination.
在航空航天用柔性复合材料技术基础上，NASA LRC还与美国农业部森林服务处 (USDAFS)合作，正在开发一种能够轻便携行，并在火灾中为消防员提供保护屏障的应急防火棚CHIEFS(Convective Heating Improvement for Emergency Fire Shelters)。
还是以郜艳敏事件为例。关于郜艳敏的新闻报道显然属于“一度区隔”，舆论有权对新闻文本的真实性问责。比如，2006年发布的《被拐女子曲阳书写园丁传奇》一文中报道，郜艳敏是在1994年遭到人贩子强暴后以2700元的价格卖到曲阳县灵山镇下岸村。这里所涉及到的人物、时间、地点以及郜艳敏被强暴和被拐卖的事实均直接指涉现实，不允许有任何虚构，因而新闻报道是“透明”的媒介再现。
How to harness the power and richness of the variation across Asia, its varied civilizations,remains the key to a greater consciousness and activity for each individual, nation and society.And for all humanity and the world that we call home. There is but one Earth and it is shared by but one humanity. And Asian civilizations can be a model for such consideration and understanding.
But to experience this, diverse civilizations such as those in Asia must embrace not only the value of dialogue, but its virtues. Anything good, anything meaningful in life and any relationship that may endure and reap the greatest benefit begins with a conversation and evolves through an awareness, understanding and a set of subsequent actions.
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There is no other way if one is to consider the pathway to a brighter future. For all requires the valued contributions of each, like distinct rays of light forging the rainbow, reflected in the rainbow of humanity.
Nature's plan
Any attempt at any other way has been transient in nature. For nature has its own plan for the future, for humanity and all living things.Human nature, while seemingly attempting to thwart change at every corner, is aligned with nature and the natural order of all things. We are given a choice as to how to experience it, but not whether. And not alone.
The world’s future is guaranteed. That is,until it has ful filled its own destiny. Humanity’s future is not. It is dependent upon our ability to move our consciousness ever upward,to evolve our thinking and to recognize our strength in diversity while working together from our common core to our shared end.
Nature will have it no other way. Certain natural truths are beyond national boundaries.We live in the same world, breathe the same air,and share the same water and food supply. We feel the same pain and awaken to the same opportunity to know greater joy. That is, if we stick to the plan that includes everyone.
How can Asian civilizations manifest greater health, wealth and vitality? And prosperity,by measures most meaningful? And do so collectively?
This is the dialogue for Asian civilizations and for all civilizations. It is a dialogue worth having, a worthy dialogue if we intend to succeed as a humanity of shared destiny.
Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar
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