IJO- International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ( E:ISSN 2811-2466 ) (P.ISSN: 2384-6097) https://ijojournals.com/index.php/ssh <p><strong>IJO- International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ( E:ISSN 2811-2466 ) (P.ISSN: 2384-6097)</strong>&nbsp;Some of the major topics include (but not limited to) are Anthropology, Archaeology, Business Management, Business Studies, Communication studies, Corporate Governance, Corporate organization, Criminology, Cross-cultural, studies, Demography, Development Studies, Economics, Education, Educational Research, English, Literature, Entrepreneurship, ethics, General History, Geography, History, Human, human Tribes, Industrial relations, Information Science, International relations, International studies, Law, Legal Management, Library Science, Linguistics, literature, Local Languages, Market Management, Media studies, Music, Operational Management.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> IJO JOURNAL en-US IJO- International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ( E:ISSN 2811-2466 ) (P.ISSN: 2384-6097) <p>Author(s) and co-author(s)&nbsp;jointly&nbsp;and severally represent and warrant that the Article is original with the author(s) and does not infringe any&nbsp;copyright or violate any other right of any third parties and that the Article has not been published&nbsp;elsewhere.&nbsp;Author(s) agree to the terms that the <strong>IJO Journal</strong> will have the full right to remove the published article on any misconduct found in the published article.</p> The Age of Universality https://ijojournals.com/index.php/ssh/article/view/1238 <p>The argument advanced in this article is the view that humanity is entering upon an age of universality.&nbsp; The term ‘universality’ is not used in the sense of all the circumstances of humanity being universal in every respect; this is of course an impossibility given the great diversity of the human race in terms of culture, language, nationality, religion and belief, etc.&nbsp; And humanity is still divided into membership of different national institutional arrangements and forms of governance, although increasingly these are being transcended by cross-border connections, institutions and laws. &nbsp;The argument accepts that all humanity is one human species and hence are members of one race and are increasingly seen as such.&nbsp; But more than that, it argues that that one human race is now participating in a process that is entering upon a new age in which the many factors that go to make up that one race are experiencing ever increasing degrees of connections and commonalities.&nbsp; These connections and commonalities have now reached a stage such that the interdependence of that one race is becoming an established fact<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>.&nbsp; Increasingly there is an emerging universality of factors applicable to all humanity despite the differences already mentioned.&nbsp; It is not uncommonly observed that the world of humanity is becoming a global village<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a>.&nbsp; And that universality is increasingly being reflected in a consciousness on the part of many people of the&nbsp;depth of these connections and commonalities.&nbsp; Despite a resurgence of national consciousness and some rise of opposition to globalization, which as Zakaria points out produces its discontents and the possibility of revolutions<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>, it is argued that the overall trend towards universality is now set in place.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a></p> Graham Nicholson ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-02-17 2026-02-17 9 02 01 20