Globalization And Values - A Contemporary Paradox

WAKE FOREST VALUES AND ETHICS - Topic No. 2
Globalization and Values - A Contemporary Paradox
The ongoing external changes occurring on the international scene on the political, economic, cultural and social levels give rise to interacting relations with traditional and contemporary values in the various societies. Globalization represents one of the axes (plural of axis) of these changes, intheir impact on the values during the attempt of expressing a unified inconsistency.

As the concept of globalization imposes on the societies choices and alternatives between their reference values and the values of globalisation policies, the equation it imposes in this context goes between absolute inconsistency and partial inconsistency, without a third given that would enable these societiesto implement a developing dynamism in its value, and thus achieve the existence of a partial possibility to participate with the international system according to national interests.

Value imposes a kind of conflicting relation with the values in the developing and developed countries as well. It tries to impose its system on the values by considering them as central values represented by theWestern example, then considered as cosmic values representing the common factor from the historical patrimony of the humanity.
The globalisation value also imposes challenges that put the societies between the choices of cultural privacies and the economical, political and strategic interests, so that would create some kind of conflict inside these societies represented by three concepts:
•Attempts to latch on to original values, thus refusing values of globalisation.
• Latch on to values of globalisation and consider them as a contemporary value example with the prerogative of dealing with reality.
• Harmony and coordination with the values of globalisation to reflect the aspects of cultural identity, keeping values as the most important symbols.
In our opinion, these threeconcepts represent important questions within the realm of political, economic, sociological, cultural academic studies in general:
• Does the value of globalisation represent to these societies a system of permanent or temporary values?
• Does the objective understanding of globalisation realize a discovery of some of the positive values present in this phenomenon?
• Could the values thatcreated a retarded reality guarantee its existence in the context of the efficiency of the value system of globalization?
• What the the mechanism of positive interaction of the societies with the values of globalization? How would it respond?

The globalisation value system includes great negativity. Its positive values such as democracy, human rights, tolerance, etc., cannot be considered asabsolute. Because these are values that are not reflected in all societies, the concepts behind them serve rather only to enhance current policies of globalisation.

Globalization mainly aims at changing the value systems in societies and transform them and try to alienate them to find a dominating system on which is based the planning and implementation of policies, which meet the interests ofcertain countries and ensures the priority of the U.S. civilized example in the framework of the system of victorious values that use the multitude of technical, technological and information means, not the mindful explanation.

According to the change in the culture of the international entities, which goes along with the existence of a system of values ruling over the other value systems in thecountries that are still living a cultural cycle and haven't yet reached the civilized cycle in which they could accomplish kinds of value control in the human surrounding, the power of the values according to culture built an argumentative relation in which the power of the values was transformed into values of power. This is a logical result that is negatively confronted with the attempts to...