ABSTRACT
This paper proposes that human culture has evolved
from authoritative local premodernity through rational local modernity to the
coming rational global postmodernity with diverse cultural types. Premodernity,
modernity, and postmodernity are the cultural adaptations to the drastic social
changes from the Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Revolutions. The
cultural types analogous to biological species are the nine cultural types
derived from the instinctive cultural type model based on the instinctive
sociality trichotomy (individualistic, collectivistic, and interdependent) and
the instinctive worldview trichotomy (territorial, connective, and
competitive). Western culture originated from the Middle East and Greece has
competitive worldview, while Eastern culture originated from India and China
has connective worldview. Different cultural types have different perceptions,
moralities, religions, politics, and economies. Currently, the world is the
chaotic diverse global society where the cultural types clash. The coming
postmodernity as rational global diversity is produced by the three rational
global diverse systems. The rational global diverse system for the coming
postmodern international politics is the three-tier international politics
consisting of nations with geopolitical boundaries, the 12 regional communities
with cultural-geographic boundaries, and the global international organizations
without boundary. The rational global diverse system for the coming postmodern
international trade is the trichotomic international trade containing free
competitive, free connective, and fair protectionist international trades. The
rational global diverse system for the coming postmodern common ground between
religion and science is the cultural theology of trinity consisting of the
transcendental, immanent, and imaginary cultural origins. The coming
postmodernity as rational global diversity will bring rational order and peace
among global diverse cultural types.