Chapter 7 was an interesting one, I found that I enjoyed less than the other surrounding chapters because it seemed the stories kind of took away from the message rather than help out his meta-discourse. However, in this chapter, I think he makes some very strong and impactful messages. Appaih’s main point is this chapter has do do cultural imperialism. Cultural imperialism is when a smaller culture or civilization attempts to adopt the customs and beliefs of a larger and more successful civilization. Appiah dismisses this theory however, because the world and the cultures in it are always changing. We cannot run away from change, we are change, therefore we have no choice but to embrace it.

The sentence “I am human, nothing human is alien to me” is the golden rule Appiah is trying to communicate. To be bue a true citizen of the world and to be a global community  we must accept one another and each others custom to truly colonize the world.

When Appiah says “Cultural purity is an oxymoron,” he is saying that the world is already so intergrated and connected with one another, that it is moronic to say that you are only part of one culture. We not fully embrace each other, but tons of different societies and cultures influence what everyone does everyday.