For all civilized human beings, the 21st century could both be a century of "Clash of Civilizations", coined by Samuel Huntington in 1992, and a century nations starting to cash in their distinct cultures interactively. In a world that is now dominated by internet systems and high-tech communication devices, today, the once tightly guarded knowledge in most of the fields is no more in the hands of a few people, or small elite groups. In this paper, the authors will pick a constructive case of merging two cultures that inspired Eisenstein around 1937 to create a new technique in art, called Montage, that had changed the very fundamental concept in making cinema, and brought great entertainment to people around the world. To clash in civilizations with destructives wars, or to cash in cultures, with added-value, to increase GDP constructively through "cultural industry", or "Knowledge engineering": the authors of this paper choose to advocate the later. They have two complementary views from different disciplines, continents and cultures but think that only the knowledge and the culture by old learning tools and new e-learning tools open-mindedly, may permit the human interactions and the economical and social development.
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