Week 9, Synthesizing East and West

I feel like that is what we are trying to do at school. Hopefully, we can find new, creative ways to integrate Oriental Medicine and Western Medicine and use the best of both systems to better be able to serve people's health needs. In a larger context, I feel that what is beginning to happen right now in the world is an intensification of synthesis between many cultures and societies through out the world. This is a truly fascinating experiment that is very new. Although different societies have been connected through out human history, it has only been until very recently that technologies have allowed us to travel and interact with so many different cultural contexts within one lifetime. It's beautiful, but we also have to be extra careful and perceptive so that certain people do not get taken advantage of.