Paragraph from the 'Diversities in Perspective Essays by Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes for the European Cultural Foundation (2007/2008)'



"In a remarkable essay entitled La Grande Perturbation,
the political scientist Zaki Laidi puts forward the thesis that
globalisation is both "a sociology of planetary
interdependencies" and "a representation of the world; in
other words, it is also a way of being and living in the world".
Developing an imagery of globalisation, he insists on the
immediacy of "global daily life", which implies a "cultural
devaluation of the long duration". He points out that market
ideology rejects "any mediation that might delay direct
access to the consumption of a product or a commodity". He
also recalls that globalisation is "a considerable source of
privatisation of public property", and of knowledge in
particular. Which is where cultural diversity comes in – as
global public property."



I find this paragraph extremely interesting as it really dose pose the question can globalization and cultural diversity co exist side by side?