http://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/two-cultures/index.html

The idea of two cultures exist all around us. Most everything around us can be divided into two groups; the rich and the poor, the academics and the nonacademics, the students and the student athletes at school, the north campus students and the south campus students. As the list goes on I have realized how my life can be divided into two groups.

One division I have experienced is in-between my ethnicities; a large part of my heritage goes back to Polynesia even though I have lived in America. With ideas like C.P. Snow’s in mind these two can easily be separated into two, the American side being the scientist or the rich, list-making, intellectual, and linear group. Whereas my Polynesian side could be considered the more artistic, poor, emotional, and creative group. Both cultures accurately represent these characteristics in comparison, but I believe there is a third group emerging, "passing of the torch from one group of thinkers…the emerging third culture."

People like me, people who are both. An idea that emerged in C.P. Snow’s second look on two cultures, was the third culture or group that would emerge to bridge this gap between the two. Some would say that these "contemporary scientists" have already emerged and are working to fill this gap. Even though these two are separated distinctly like Snow’s argument, dividing the two into scientist and artists, I have managed to bring them together to bridge the gap between the two cultures.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hayes/gianni5.htm

Another real world example of a third culture could be socialism which works to bridge the gap between capitalism and communism. With capitalism relating to the artistic side because people here have creative freedom toward as they please and communism being more like the linear and methodical lifestyles, socialism works to eliminate the gap between these two cultures.

With two cultures living all around us, it is inevitable that a third group would emerge. How this third group fits and works with the current two cultures however will determine the outcome of the two cultures.


Citations:

 Brockman, John. "INTRODUCTION." Edge.org. 1 Jan. 1996. Web. 1 Apr. 2016. <https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-emerging>.

 Robinson, Ken. "RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms." Youtube.com. 14 Oct. 2010. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U>. 

 Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print. 

 Vesna, Victoria. "TwoCultures Part I." Desma 9. Online, Los Angeles. 30 Mar. 2016. Lecture. 

"13b. Comparing Economic Systems." Ushistory.org. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. <http://www.ushistory.org/gov/13b.asp>.