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Cultural conflict has become a staple of contemporary society, world renowed novelist Chaim Potok told a standing-room-only crowd at Hillel last night...
That type of society no longer exists, Potok said. While we still learn the value systems of our own particular cultures, we are also "bombarded by alternative ways of thinking," he said...
...Potok described culture as a response by particular groups in society to the ultimate questions of life...
According to Potok, a cultural conflict can take many forms, including a "core to core cultural conflict" which "occure when one set of ways of giving meaning to these questions crashes up against one another...
...become a battle ground for a certain kind of conflict of ideas" Potok told the audience. "As we grow up we learn to handle these alternative ways of thinking and structuring the world," he said...