What you do here is absolutely dangerous. Globalization has lead in many countries to increasing poverty and threatens democraty. If you would have read "The Globalization Trap" you would have argued more competent.
What you do here is exactly the same polarization like Bush does: "whoever is against globalization is against technology, democracy -- simply a terrorist.
That is not the way we have to discuss this problem. If you want to talk about the WTC attacks, then please take "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel P. Huntington as base for that. Because that is what happened here.
Globalization is a serious problem, you should not mix it up with emotionally overloaded topics like the terrorists attack. We need solutions for that that really help. Your article implicates the call to defend globalization agains the terrorists.
But that is not the question we have to discuss.
Some facts from the first book I mentioned:
Globalization and especially global finance market has threatened the democracy in Sweden, Germany -- they were forced by investors to reduce social standarts.
Remember "Operation Peso Shield" -- a enormous
thread even for US economy caused by global fincance markets.
The US imports more "cultural goods" then any other nation -- that is what other cultures feel threated by. Not everybody likes Beverly Hills brainwashing
Globalization is advancing much faster then local democraties can develop and often democratic
leader argue that they are forced to do certain things pushed by global markets -- this somehow a very dangerous tendency
global finace marktes almost managed to crash the introducing of the EURO
globalization has caused a dramatic increase of environment polution -- imagine 1Billion chinese to start driving cars instead of bicycles!
globalization has lead to more poor and hungry
people -- even if we assume that some states could increase economy this does not mean that the people (and that's what it should be about) could increase their living standart! Don't let you be fooled by statistics.
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Guess the CD is setting up a Windows installation first to let the computer crash?
What you do here is exactly the same polarization like Bush does: "whoever is against globalization is against technology, democracy -- simply a terrorist.
That is not the way we have to discuss this problem. If you want to talk about the WTC attacks, then please take "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel P. Huntington as base for that. Because that is what happened here.
Globalization is a serious problem, you should not mix it up with emotionally overloaded topics like the terrorists attack. We need solutions for that that really help. Your article implicates the call to defend globalization agains the terrorists. But that is not the question we have to discuss.
Some facts from the first book I mentioned:
Cheers! Kolja