There is a famous children's game called telephone, the object of the game is that one person sends a message and it is whispered to the next person and so on. By the end of the entire sequence, the message is generally confusing and often makes almost no sense. However, this children's game seems to have the same idea and result as globalization. As ideas, customs and cultures are moved from one nation to another; they are often interpreted and appear to be different. Chris Waterman, dean of UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture, has conducted case studies on this idea. Specifically, Waterman showed how globalization has influenced a classic Zulu song, Mbube. Likewise, religions often go through processes where ideas change from country to country based on the angle modern culture takes on the topic. In depth, Christianity has had a constant change in its idea of ​​covenant with God since its first introduction through Adam. Similar to the game of telephone, Chris Waterman and the covenant in the Hebrew Bible are both examples of how ideas are changed to fit modern culture, even though the same basic structure is still present. The “new covenant” in Christianity has changed quite some time since the first covenant that God promised his people. The covenant began, in a sense, with Adam; however, when Adam betrayed God and was expelled from the Garden of Eden, the covenant was broken. However, the New Testament covenant was based on the covenant God made with Noah. This covenant established the basic structure that would become the skeleton of all future covenants. The basic structure of this covenant is that God promises benefits to a particular group of people, provided they do a specific task… middle of paper… the exact same log over and over again (Waterman). These are the underlying issues in both of these arguments. As cultures, customs and ideas are transferred from one country to another and from one period to another, they are modified to fit the society of that time. However, no one can deny what works, so the same basic structure is always maintained. Society is condemned to play telephone for the rest of history. As they say, history always repeats itself. Works Cited “American Standard Bible.” Bible Door. Ed. Nick Hengeveld. GospelInternational Communications. Retrieved November 17, 2005."Covenant." The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin (2002). Retrieved November 17, 2005, from xreferplus..Waterman, Chris. "The lion sleeps under many blankets." University of Illinois Global Studies Initiative. Urbana, Illinois. October 5, 2005.