李斯曼的框架在当今阿拉伯世界能够找到尤其多的共鸣，在当今阿拉伯世界，日益升高的识字率和通讯技术的迅速进步导致了互相竞争的文化叙事的乱战，这三类文化争相决定该地区的未来。
Riesman’s framework has particular resonance in the Arab world today, where rising literacy rates and rapid advances in communication technology have stirred a maelstrom of competing cultural narratives, with his three types competing to define the region’s future.