Do you feel the cultural impact in “A Polyglot Blade Runner World With Blurred Borders”?
Is America a “culture-shocked society” at war with itself, like the rest of the world?
Mr. Ian C. Dawkins Moore, a man on a mission who hates “boring xenophobes” who, on a continuous journey of self-discovery, traveled through the heart of Europe back to Africa and then to America, believes that Yes.
And so, taking the term “culture shock” from Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock, he has set out to wake us up and help us better understand the multicultural world we live in through Culture Shock News (CSN), which is now you can watch 24/7 all over the world in flash video format.
Moore’s argument is that while we have reached “fantastic heights” technologically, “the parallel development of social interaction, integration, and inclusion has not kept pace.”
He believes that societies are “at war with each other and with themselves because they do not accept the need to treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves.”
Yet always optimistic, Mr. Moore sees a way out of our state of culture shock.
“My experiences,” he says, “have shown me that when people listen to each other, everyone gets positive feedback.
“Each one I meet is a potential creative force that can change the nature of their lives and those around them.
“By focusing on one person at a time, I am encouraged by the potential for change in the future.
“As Christians say: if I can help someone on their life path, then my life will not have been in vain.”
The qualifications of this writer, teacher, engineer and video producer, who was born in London, England, to cope with the impacts of a multicultural world, or what one writer has described as “a polyglot and edgy Blade Runner world blurred “while reviewing Mr. Moore’s work [Anneli Rufus in the East Bay Express, August 10, 2005]-They are persuasive.
Like “the child of the fifties and sixties”, he believes he belongs to “the first generation perhaps, to give voice to the multicultural reality of the modern world” [Culture Shock Essays by I. C. Moore, Jukebox Press, Oakland, CA, 1999; page 1].
“I am,” says Moore, “a product of an English mother and a Jamaican father,” and since neither of them raised him, he had many foster parents and families from whom he learned “to love those who give love.”
And in what would become characteristic of him in later years, he spent his youth fleeing “xenophobic boredom” [“My Bio-Sphere,” Culture Shock Essays].
After graduating in 1970 with a British degree in civil engineering, Mr. Moore began a journey across continents that honed his vision and role in a multicultural world.
First, he traveled all over Europe, doing various jobs. Then, in 1974, she decided to pursue the teaching profession and traveled to West Africa for two years in search of “the African side” of her nature.
He crossed the Sahara desert and traveled through Algeria, Mali (visiting Timbuktu), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone, teaching English and working as a graphic designer, sales executive and diamond miner. .
Moore writes that his African odyssey had a “profound effect” on his “youth.” [“The Road to Ramadan,” Culture Shock Essays, p. 51] when he realized his real African connection.
It was also during this trip that he became a Muslim.
On his conversion to Islam, Mr. Moore reflects in “The Road to Ramadan”:
“Through faith and compassion, my understanding of the world and its different peoples was greatly improved. Above all, the search for truth through constant inquiry and self-examination has persisted for all these years since I found myself in the way to Ramadan “.
In 1976, he returned to England again and worked on an oil rig in the North Sea as a laborer and as a planning engineer for an oil company in Aberdeen, Scotland. He also played the saxophone in various bands in local establishments and participated in various theatrical productions.
Then in 1981, Mr. Moore moved to the United States and established himself as an award-winning freelance writer, graphic artist and video producer, and set out to wake us up with CSN.
His mission enlightens him. Digging deeper into CSN’s exploration of the contributions of all the cultures that make up the American family, including their confrontations, Moore says: “I have embarked on one of the most interesting challenges of my life: changing the world through poetry. and art expression, one poet at a time.
“I have the gift of meeting people and fostering their creative spirit.
“Each individual must free themselves, and the best way to do this is by opening up to their creative spirit.”
He has written four books, two on culture and education and two books on poetry.
This avid reader, who averages “one book a week,” all of which he finds influencing, says in his autobiographical poem, “My biosphere.” [Culture Shock Essays, p. 110]:
I read like a fish that swims at night
I spend more on books than I am entitled to
I meditate, I relax, and I stay relaxed.
My dreams are to learn the heart of the word
My hopes are to chase that winged bird
My efforts, I pray, are to teach and to be heard.
Poem © 1999 Ian CD Moore
Based in Oakland, California, since 1981, Mr. Moore lives with his wife Bridgette and daughter Jazmine.
Flash reviews of two books by Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Culture shock tests [Jukebox Press, Oakland, CA, 1999; $13; ISBN 0-932693-04-0]
All of these essays are animated by Mr. Moore’s unique point of view. He tells what he has in mind, a living mind for the multicultural possibilities and contributions of our time, as well as its confusions, while describing his travels in essays entitled: ‘Coming to America’; “See London and die”; ‘The Road to Ramadan’ (about his conversion to Islam); ‘China: 6,000 years in 6 days’; ‘The promised land’ (his stay in Palestine); ‘Jamaica-No Problem’ (his experience during Hurricane Gilbert in 1988); and ‘Nice Chap’ (an essay about her relationship with her father).
The color of jazz (poetry) [Quilombo Enterprises ICM, Oakland, CA]
These poems, which record observations and memorable moments in Moore’s life, each written with one person in mind, including poets, musicians, politicians, himself and his family, were published in 2001 under the name ‘Kweku Dawkins, writer, poet, storyteller. The one that I found interesting was a poem for the poet’s poet that reflects an essential aspect of himself, both as a poet and as a person, that he wishes to celebrate and acknowledge:
NOT WITH EYES OF TEARS (To Kweku D.)
It is not with eyes of tears
I greet the dawn of the new season.
Nor do I chase like a butterfly
Threads from a half-forgotten tapestry.
I sing no song of pain to lift my muse
Cause she calls me in all moods
A spirit fixed to my inner soul
—- I just have to listen.
Poem: © 2001 Ian CD Moore (Kweku Dawkins).