Globalization, Deculturization, and the Crisis of Identity

• Main Author: Burhan Ghalioun
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 1998-12-01
• Series: Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
• Online Access: http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/5485/54033/file/43-44ghalioum.pdf

The study presents five trends resulting from the impact of globalization and the emergence of the information society in the evolution of cultures world-wide, which, in the future, may well bring about great transformations within the geocultural configurationof the planet. Concretely, the author refers to the relations of culture with the economy, geopolitics, politics, the same culture itself, and finally, with society. In definitive, the author explores the impact globalization has on the crisis of identity and puts forth a number of possible solutions. Only a concerted global action that tries to counteract the negative effects of globalization may stop the mercantile devastation and help to protect humanity from a cultural catastrophe. To begin to make this happen, the article proposes that the United Nations adopt a means by which hundreds of millions of people are prevented from turning into culturally excluded and disinherited beings.