Awareness Trainings - Draft #1
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I/V « Post-Globalized » Context<br />
Globalization’s Outcomes<br />
Globalization, from an economic perspective, refers to the inexorable integration of markets,<br />
nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before—in a way that is enabling<br />
individuals, corporations and nation states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and<br />
cheaper than ever before.<br />
However our world, no matter how open it might be open today, is, and will ever be, a closed<br />
world: we still don’t live on Mars, and our planet cannot be enlarged. By opening it, globalization<br />
paradoxically closed our world: the destruction of its internal borders highlighted that we are now<br />
all economically, politically and culturally interdependent and that we are all members of the same<br />
close society de facto. Our world is now a closed open-space.<br />
Also, identity is not a personal issue anymore. Identity is slowly becoming a collective, cultural and<br />
shared concern of our open-world: globalization is creating to new issues and new concerns such<br />
as the loss of identity and the sustainability of the cultures. The world has entered in a postglobalized<br />
context, formed by citizens feeling increasingly close to their local or national identity.<br />
Globalization is leading to another disenchantment of the world, with the destruction of the sacred<br />
aura of local values, identities and specificities. What seemed obvious before has now become an<br />
option, another kind of life model you can choose, or not. Here is the paradox of the globalized<br />
human beings: when humanity becomes global, humanity loses its sense.<br />
But the history of humanity is all about cycles. When globally assumed, rationalism and<br />
materialism automatically lead to the rise of immaterial values. When globally established,<br />
individualism and globalism automatically lead to the rise of local communities and collective<br />
identities. The human spirit needs what he cannot access or what he could lose, and at the precise<br />
moment people are increasingly feeling that they are losing their identity worldwide.