Restrictive channels of cultural interchange

The intercultural exchange of life-styles, gifts, and ideas is essential to human development, yet access to this interchange is severely restricted, in particular for many Third World rural communities. Residents may realize the significant effects of national and global events, and glean what they can by listening to radios in the streets and by conversing with neighbours in the regional towns, but these channels are minimal compared with what is both needed and desired. Travel to the market centre is the major contact point with the world, and travel beyond that is almost inconceivable. Women in particular do not expect to go far from their own village, and resources which might enrich and develop family life are felt to be so far off as to be virtually inaccessible. Access to the varying experiences and educational options that might enable village people to create a more effective life-style are strictly limited, nor are there means for the village culture to express itself to the nation or to the world.

1. Restrictive practices
2. Inadequate external liaison
3. Cultural barriers

1. Restrictive communication
2. Overlooked media channels
3. Obstructions to international personnel exchanges and cultural cooperation
4. Obstacles to international exchange of cultural materials
5. Lack of social contact
6. Insufficient family services
7. Inadequate interface between fundamentally different societies

1. Lack of appreciation of cultural differences
2. Cultural isolation

1. Traditionalism
2. Student immobility
3. Inadequate transportation facilities for rural communities

1. Social isolation of women at home
2. Limited market transportation
3. Humanism
4. Accusing channels for dialogue of being restrictive

1. Promoting cultural exchanges
2. Limiting exposure to other cultures

1. Undeveloped
2. Underdevelopment
3. Restriction
4. Overdevelopment
5. Nonrestrictive