Culture, Ideologies and Globalization

The mutualness and interconnectedness of the immature orb is upon us. This spick-and-span era of sphericalization has led us to brisk(a) frontiers and opportunities; but unbeknownst to many another(prenominal), this interconnectedness has a dark side. The piece is now a crawl click away, with a global ex channel of ideas and up to the hr spick-and-spans from anywhere on the planet. However beneficial, all of these sweep changes in the technology brace also opened the inlet for extremists, fundamentalists, and nationalist intent on unspeakable acts of violence. Gus Martins essay, globalisation and International Terror describes how globalisation has created a cultural reverberate as a new global identity is rejected, the new profile and operating present for the new global terrorist, and how we may need to evolve and change our security policies and procedures to combat this new global threat.\nMartin begins by discussing how globalization has brought about more th an economic changes but has also changed the cultural identities of every country in the world and that these identities subscribe to expand 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 jar of Civilization. In addition gum benjamin Barber in his essay, jehad vs McWorld, also predicts that retribalization of humankind by war and bloodshed pull up stakes be brought about by Globalization as these slender 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 harvest-home in terrorism by fundamentalists and nationalists in the globalized world. The new ideologies of globalization, such as gender equating and freedom of speech, fend for a threat to these unearthly fun damentalists. Within Robertson and Whites ess...