To: The Philosopher who wrote (9925 ) 5/27/1999 6:21:00 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Respond to
Chris, And 82 percent of Americans favor a temporary halt to the airstrikes while the U.S. and NATO attempted to resolve the matter through negotiations and other means. globalization , new economy , frictionless capitalism , free flow of information, capital, human resources, etc. are basically American references. As the Anglo-Saxon bourgeoisie tries to enforce its model/ideology worldwide, it triggers a cultural backlash: the backlash in Asia is an easy, straightfoward one to deal with... Why? Because Asian people perceive themselves as a civilisation on the rise , as a region moving upward on the world foodchain! Obviously, they anticipate that WASP capitalists from the US and Europe won't let them so easily sweep their way to the top... but they can cope with such an adversity --time's on their side! Slowly but surely, Asians are gonna make it --in spite of all the so-called ''Asian crises'' Anglo-Saxon capitalists will pathetically put in their works...globalization is rather a begrudging acknowledgement. Contrariwise, Europeans understand that globalization is driving them downwards --except for a few high-tech/engineering industries. But, as one Chinese official once put it: China offsets the import of a single long-haul Airbus with 20 millions pairs of shoes. Problem is the latter provides a job for thousands of Chinese workers whereas the former feeds a few dozens of engineers and other symbolic analysts ...corporacism , that is a modern blend of corporatism (craftmanship) and racism. I might be wrong, of course, but the coming European elections scheduled on June 13th will rule the question.
