LANGUAGE OF DIGNIFIED HUMANITY
LANGUAGE OF DIGNIFIED HUMANITY

Summary/Abstract: In today’s world of information technologies, conflicts between intellectual traditions of educated urban elites and common people, inclusive of powerless minorities, have become intensified. Helpless humanity has been subjected to mistreatment by elites with power to make policies and laws, which do not necessarily serve the needs of the majority of people. Additionally, the language of modernity, marked by competitive consumerism and heightened capitalism, has widened the existing divides between multiplicity of dialogues related to categories of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, age and origin of birth. All divides, both individual and collective, have made the universe unsafe, leading to increased violence in thought, word, and action. In a world of strangers, humans are deprived of their innate dignity. This paper will discuss social inequality related to the phenomenon of elitism and the problems it poses to democratic society. Since elitism is a byproduct of education, the paper will explain the role of education and its relationship to elitism. An attempt will be made to reconcile the nature of elitism and education with the philosophical concepts of human being and the humanity’s language of dignity that transcends languages of all isms. Finally, the paper calls for quality educational programs, which focus on teaching ethics of diverse humanity through analytical thinking infused with valid reasoning supplemented by pragmatics of non-violent inter-cultural communication. In order to protect the innate dignity of all-inclusive humanity, a balanced and eclectic cosmopolitanism is recommended.

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