Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

1957. Anthropologist Dr Stephen Juan is the Ashley Montagu Fellow for the Public Understanding of Human Sciences at the University of Sydney. Montagu who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940 taught and lectured at Harvard Princeton University Rutgers University the University of California and New York University.

As a young man he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28 1905 – November 26 1999) was a British-American anthropologist and humanist of Jewish ancestry who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".