Please answer the following questions: by Usic https://padlet.com/usictech/heqfpyk8lm7kbn57 What is Atomism? Q2: What changes to the society in a globalised world have made Atomism more likely? Q3: What is 'Tragic Individualism'? Offer an example to illustrate your definition. Q4: Is Globalisation producing a global mono-culture? What examples do you know (from your own experience) both for and against this question. Made with mirth en-us 2021-06-22 09:12:34 UTC 2021-06-22 09:26:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Group 4 szuo2 https://padlet.com/usictech/heqfpyk8lm7kbn57/wish/1619346522 1.Atomism is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical world is composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms.
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People less connected, operating like separate atoms
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New media (e.g. mobile phones,cable TV,cheaper computers and the Internet) technologies of connectivity marking the age of the ‘information society’ and the Knowledge Economy. 
With the arrival of these new technologies, people have been able to stay at home, raising the barrier of face-to-face communication between people.
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FOR:
Nowadays, every city has the tendency of homogenization. Multinational companies like Starbucks and KFC can be seen everywhere.
 
 AGAINST:
Thanks to globalization, people now celebrate more festivals and learn more about cultures. For example, the Spring Festival in the East and Christmas in the West. Another example is Christianity, Buddhism and other faiths. Individual differences produce different cultural choices and understandings, forming a pluralistic society.
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2. People are now living in the flats and they don't speak to their neighborhoods.
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Results in ‘tragic individualisation’: failures of science, politics and other expert systems to manage risks force people to cope themselves with uncertainty.

The complex, loose and to an extend uncontrollable world can increase insecurity and uncertainty.

The speed of Industrialisation and dismantling of regulatory frameworks (through neo-liberalism) have created envirnonmental and economic problems; terrorism and personal safety issues.

In USA, there are many people from
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