ABSTRACT
The occupations within the transnational cultural apparatus have varying reach, and in combination they will give a fragmented and contradictory view of the world. In the twentieth century, more people know something about parts of the world further away, or at least have ideas about distant lands and people. The ethnographer has even harsher opinions of the evangelist, who appears as an enemy of science, ethnocentric, and unscrupulous in fomenting cultural chaos for the sake of questionable religious alterations. Anthropologists often find the interculturalists superficial – if not in their own knowledge, at least in the way they communicate it to clients. In another way, the anthropologists and the interculturalists might have something in common: the tendency to emphasize cultural diversity. Political reporting involves elites and structures of a modern sector where it may at least appear that little cultural translation is required.
