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Article: Changing conventions.(PARTING THOUGHTS)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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CHANGE LONG HAS BEEN A TOPIC for discussion and is part of the warp and woof of our world concerning not only culture, but nature as well. The science of physics points out that, in its subatomic insights, the world is in constant molecular change or motion. This would cease only at absolute zero. Let's see how change applies to our lives in respect to conventions, mores, and morals--all standards of one sort or another.
A convention is "a practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social intercourse." Various languages are a pristine example. While language itself seems to be wired into the human brain, this or that vocabulary ...