Cultures to culture

Book 11 Page 19

Cultures to culture

An aboriginal child in a the heart of Australia,

dances to the disco beat,

to the radio in the scorching heat.

The elders don’t sing their tribal dance no more,

for on the radio there’s white man’s music galore.

Slowly the world becomes,

Cultures to culture, culturally one.

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A television program rings out over the land of Africa,

And the tribe’s men gather and listen to the weather forecast.

As they sit there clued to the T. V. station still wearing their masks.

But these days they tend to celebrate their old ways now,

with booze and grog instead of the sacrificial cow.

Slowly the world becomes,

Cultures to culture, culturally one.

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As the blue skies are filled with a million radio waves,

there are changes taking place all over the world in the way we behave.

Changes almost too subtle to perceive,

as the old ways slowly slowly leave.

Slowly the world becomes, culturally one.

Cultures to culture, melding to one.

Loosing the old ways for just one new.

Affecting absolutely everybody including me and including you.