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Globalization is a declarationof war upon all other cultures. And in culture wars, there is no exemption of civilians, there are no innocentbystanders. Why should it be expected that ancient and rooted civilizations are going to accept this peripheralisationwithout a struggle? Theanswer to that is that globalization carries an implicit promise that it will relieve poverty and offer securityperhaps the most ancient of humandreams. Because of the power of global capitalism to create wealth, it is assumed that this priority must sweep aside all other humanpreoccupations, including all existing institutions, interpretations and searches for meaning in the world.
It is disingenuous to assume that economy, society and culture operate in separate spheres. This suggests that, one, exposed to theglobalizing imperative, no aspect of social life, customary practice, traditionalbehaviour will remain the same.
There have been, broadly, two principal responses in the world, which we may call the fatalistic and the resistant. It is significant that
among the most fatalistic have been the leaders of G-7, Ex-President Clinton said globalization is a fact not a policy choice Tony Blair said it isinevitable and irreversible. It may be considered paradoxical that the leaders of the most dynamic and expanding economies in the world offersuch a passive, unchallenging view of what are, after all, human-made arrangements. These are among the richest and most proactiveregimes, which can wage endless war on the great abstraction, that is terror, topple regimes and lay down one WTO law for the poor andanother for themselves. Is their helplessness in the presence of these mighty economic and cultural powers?【全球化英语作⽂】