Conference paper
GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL INDIVIDUALIZATION IN TODAY'S WORLD
Đorđe Pribičević
; Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author analyzes the current trends of globalization of trade, capital flow, mass media, communication, transport, tourism and economic migrations. However, there is the backflash to the globalizing processes: cultural particularism which has mobilized archaic traditions and triggered violent outbreaks of hostilities. Political scientist Francis Fukuyama has pointed out that today the key chalenges to liberal democracy are a miscellany of particularisms: religious fundamentalism, extremist nationalism and fascism and Asian authoritarian paternalism. Samuel Huntington also warns about the dangers of ethnic and cultural particularism. Within such a framework, the phenomenon of "ethnic cleansing" is only an extreme form of the trend which has marked the 20th century - cultural homogenization as a reaction to the problems of multiethnic and multicultural communities. The author is of the opinion that this development need not represent an obstacle for the dialogue and communication among cultures.
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105864
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Publication date:
4.10.1996.
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