Article Title

Is There a GPS for Lost in Translation?

Authors

Carole Garrison, Eastern Kentucky University

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

Building human community is a greater task today as we reach a billion more people on our planet than just 12 years ago; then the earth was home to 6 billion people, according to the United Nations, and back in the 1960s, the earth’s population measured only half that number—3 billion. The concept, community, is over-broad and thus problematic. It covers both groups and individuals bound by similar and dissimilar interests. It can contain ideas across a broad array of cultural entities in life. A “Community” is a construct, an abstraction. Even as a member, we cannot see a whole community, we cannot touch it, and we cannot directly experience it. Like the words, “hill” or “snowflake,” a community may come in one of many shapes, sizes, colors and locations, no two of which are alike. A community has fuzzy boundaries; communities can be within communities; all communities have a life-cycle.

Recommended Citation

Garrison, Carole (2018) "Is There a GPS for Lost in Translation?," The Chautauqua Journal: Vol. 2, Article 14.
Available at: https://encompass.eku.edu/tcj/vol2/iss1/14