We are living in a time—and I see this all over the world—in which our very nature is in transition. —JEAN HOUSTON We need a psychology of place. As Einstein once said, "Everything has changed except our thinking." Right now we barely have the words to discuss what is happening to the human race. Our economy and our technology have changed much more rapidly than our conceptions about what it means to be human. In our rapidly changing world, we need research about the effects of global meld on people. We are living in a world that is falling apart and coming together at the same time. It is both Babel and EuroDisney. All the world is becoming more like America at the same time that America is becoming more diverse. The sun never sets on MTV or Coca-Cola, and Nebraskans can shop for jicama and kimchi, listen to music from Eastern Europe, or pray in a Buddhist temple with people from Laos and Vietnam. Global citizens know Michael Jordon, Julia Roberts, and Tiger Woods. New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have always had global moments, incongruous scenes of cultures colliding, but now we are having those moments in Nebraska.
