Saturday, October 29, 2016
Culture, Ideologies and Globalization
The mutuality and interconnection of the unexampled earth is upon us. This advanced era of globoseisation has led us to young frontiers and opportunities; but unbeknownst to many another(prenominal), this interconnectedness has a dark side. The humans is now a snarf click away, with a global ex deviate of ideas and up to the comminuted red-hots from anywhere on the planet. However beneficial, all of these sweeping changes in the technology rich person also opened the brink for extremists, fundamentalists, and nationalist intent on unspeakable acts of violence. Gus Martins essay, globalisation and International Terror describes how globalisation has created a pagan quail as a new-made global identity is rejected, the new profile and operating sticker for the new global terrorist, and how we whitethorn need to evolve and change our security policies and procedures to combat this new global threat.\nMartin begins by discussing how globalisation has brought about m ore than stinting changes but has also changed the cultural identities of every country in the world and that these identities put one over grow beyond local and patriotism; now inclusive of a global identity that many reject. These new challenges to identity have created transnational fault-lines as predicted by Samuel Huntington in his article The thicket of Civilization. In addition gum benjamin Barber in his essay, international jihad vs McWorld, also predicts that retribalization of humankind by war and bloodshed bequeath be brought about by Globalization as these humble countries and tribes will driven by parochial hatreds and battle against the homogenization of their cultures. It is this clash of culture and the rejection of this new global identity that has caused the outgrowth in terrorism by fundamentalists and nationalists in the globalized world. The new ideologies of globalization, such as gender par and freedom of speech, flirt a threat to these sacred fun damentalists. Within Robertson and Whites ess...
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