On Jan 11, 2008 5:03 PM, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding cultural homogenization, assuming for purposes of discussion that > it is occurring, is it a result of capitalism or modern communications? In > other words, assuming the existence of modern communications, why would there > be less cultural homogenization if there was global socialism? > > David Shemano >
Excellent question. Today's global capitalism is very closely related to the Internet and telecomm technologies to enable labor arbitrage and financial innovation, so it is not clear that you can separate their effects. That said, I am sure that a "global socialism" would also have the possibilities for increased cultural homogeneity. Did anything like this happen in the smaller republics of the USSR and in Soviet era Eastern Europe? -raghu.
