American Views Abroad


Wednesday, April 26, 2006
 
We are Globalized, But Have No Real Intimacy with the Rest of the World by Martin Jacques at http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7293 argues that globalization's 'one size fits all' mentality cancels out respect for differences among cultures and peoples, creates a false sense of intimacy with the rest of the world thus laying the groundwork for intolerance. The example he highlights at the beginning of this essay -- how an American author wrote about Japanese culture in 1944 with respect -- is striking when, say, sitting down and reading through piles of Sunday New York Times Book Reviews. For the most part you can't shake off the impression that the US is so emerged in itself that the rest of the world is hardly present in any serious sense, unless, of course, it involves highpoints of US history.

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