Perspectives of a sustainable society by the management of traditional lifestyle and information

我们探讨了传统生活方式和信息之间的关系，以便在日本或美国等现代社会中获得可持续社会的观点。对美国的阿米什人、新西兰的毛利人和澳大利亚的原住民进行了调查，并与日本和美国进行了比较。结果表明，阿米什人社会是由他们的宗教信仰管理的信息所指定的，这些信息支持他们的身份，文化价值观和传统生活方式。毛利人接受了西方的价值观，改变了他们的生活方式。但是，他们的文化价值观和传统生活方式的丧失，使他们通过自己的大众传媒和教育重新评估自己的传统文化。值得注意的是，出现了一些运动，管理自然资源或自然环境，或建立一个可持续的社会，通过他们的传统价值观。原住民已经适应了西方的生活方式，很少自己决定自己的生活方式。尽管情况如此，通过电子媒体或教育已经开始了新的信息管理，这可能有助于他们的生活方式的自决。相反，在日本或美国，传统的生活方式随着消费导向型社会的盛行而衰落，信息技术增加了人们在现代社会中的焦虑。因此，对信息的自主管理是必不可少的，系统的、有意识的管理决定着现代社会的可持续发展。

We have explored the relationship between traditional lifestyle and information in order to obtain perspectives for the sustainable society in a modern society such as Japan or the United States. Investigation was done on Amish in America, Maori in New Zealand and Aboriginal people in Australia and compared with that in Japan or America. The results showed that Amish society is specified by the information managed by their religious belief which supports their identity, cultural values and their traditional lifestyle. Maori adopted the western values and changed their lifestyle to the western one. But the loss of their cultural values and traditional lifestyle has reevaluated their own traditional culture through their own mass media and education. It is noted that there appears some movements to manage natural resources or natural environment, or to build a sustainable society through their traditional values. Aboriginal people have been adjusted themselves to the western mode and seldom determine their lifestyle themselves. In spite of the situation new management of information has begun through electric media or education, which might contribute to the self-determination of their lifestyle. On the contrary, in Japan or America the traditional lifestyle has declined according to the prevalence of consumption-oriented society, and information technology has increased an anxiety of the people in the modern society. Hence autonomic management of information is essential and the systematic and intentional management could determine the sustainable society in the modern society.