Globalization i a declarationof war upon all other culture. And in culture war, there i no exemption of civilian, there are no innocent bytander. Why hould it be expected that ancient and rooted civilization are going to accept thi peripheraliationwithout a truggle? The anwer to that i that globalization carrie an implicit promie that it will relieve poverty and offer ecurityperhap the mot ancient of human dream. Becaue of the power of global capitalim to create wealth, it i aumed that thi priority mut weep aide all other human preoccupation, including all exiting intitution, interpretation and earche for meaning in the world.
It i diingenuou to aume that economy, ociety and culture operate in eparate phere. Thi ugget that, one, expoed to the globalizing imperative, no apect of ocial life, cutomary practice, traditionalbehaviour will remain the ame.
There have been, broadly, two principal repone in the world, which we may call the fatalitic and the reitant. It i ignificant that among the mot fatalitic have been the leader of G-7, Ex-Preident Clinton aid globalization i a fact not a policy choice Tony Blair aid it i inevitable and irreverible. It may be conidered paradoxical that the leader of the mot dynamic and expanding economie in the world offer uch a paive, unchallenging view of what are, after all, human-made arrangement. Thee are among the richet and mot proactive regime, which can wage endle war on the great abtraction, that i terror, topple regime and lay down one WTO law for the poor and another for themelve. I their helplene in the preence of thee mighty economic and cultural power?WWw.hAOZUowEN.com