When we arrive at one homogeneous culture, who do we emulate to improve ourselves? How can we be sure that of two competing ideas, one is better? Competition a

When we arrive at one homogeneous culture, who do we emulate to improve ourselves? How can we be sure that of two competing ideas, one is better? Competition and contrast between cultures is what enables us to improve. The world wants to copy Silicon Valley, but during its inception it was (and to some extent, it still is) a highly iconoclastic culture. We can not engineer an ideal society by picking and choosing aspects of different cultures, homogenizing them, and implementing it globally. It will be imperfect -- and we will have no way to improve.