International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not
very "internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual
extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much
of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt
truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international
communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and
cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is
important to note that the quest to establish universally valid
"laws" of human society with little regard for cultural values and
variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of
intellectual development are reckoning with the important
dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective
consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication",
Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large
views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject
anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural
incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of
departure for internationalizing "international communication" must
be precisely the opposite of parochialism - namely, a spirit of
cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to
foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms,
metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds.
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