Evening News 24 - Cyclist attacked by An N&N spokesman said: “According to sources this gang has been doing this for a while - stopping people at the bridge and demanding money to get across.

“But this was the first time they have actually attacked anyone and he has been not only harmed, but also shaken up by the incident.â€?

This is an interesting statement revealing the current focus on the importance of mental health even to the exclusion of physical well-being. The fact that a man was bruised is not nearly as important as the fact that he was 'traumatized'. While this might be a trivial (or even humorous - though not for the victim) example of a conceptual frame, there might be much more significant consequences for the clash of civilizations. I was recently involved in a discussion about Bourdieu's symbolic violence against students in education - which struck me as a slightly strange thing to worry about having just returned from Albania where actual violence on students is not uncommon. With metaphorical sensibilities such as these, it might be even more difficult to communicate across cultural and conceptual divides. (Which is not to suggest that we have another option or that things would be fine if we only took the effort to understand each other better.)