Sep 22 2007
About
ABOUT THE SITE
SuddenWorld is about giving a voice to cross-cultural issues and events through a minority perspective. My hope is to provide some small remedy against the two opposing forces that tend to dominate the dialogue of our pluralistic society: on the one extreme are mass media’s attempts to transform American culture into a big and bland market-targeted population of complacent consumers; on the opposite end are the forces of factionalism (be they ethnic, economic, religious, or what have you) that threaten to cut themselves off from other perspectives in favor of their own myopic world view.
As individuals so afraid of being left out, we often crave symbols and demagogues, finding comfort in these monolithic rallying points. At other times, we close ourselves off to each other, believing that good fences make good neighbors. However, as the mosaic of our society grows ever more intricate, we should instead endeavor to build bridges into one another’s lives. Therein lie the paths to greater understanding and common decency. There is no greater moral imperative.
It takes a world to make a word, and it takes a word to make a point. Welcome to SuddenWorld.
ABOUT THE BLOGGER
Edward Pontee currently lives in Queens, New York, after having lived in a range of locations including Chicago, 
Illinois; Deep River, Canada; Baltimore, Maryland; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Seoul, South Korea. He has worked in the publishing industry and currently teaches and writes.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 1994. He was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan where he received his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 1999. He has received his Master of Science in Teaching in Adolescence English from Fordham University in 2008.
