http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/04/13/globalizations/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/04/13/globalizations/comment-page-1/#comment-3656 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2430#comment-3656 <!--%kramer-pre%-->makes it clear how cultural rights can serve to help those who have been dealt cards from the bottom of the pile. What is missing here is a sense of history. Globalization is not a new phenomenon. In fact, there are good arguments that today’sglobalization is far more limited than what the world witnessed at the peak of the colonial era. What Appiah is noticing is not so much the product of the integration of the world’s economies as it is the rise of a cosmopolitan global elite. The second part of this historical<!--%kramer-post%--> makes it clear how cultural rights can serve to help those who have been dealt cards from the bottom of the pile. What is missing here is a sense of history. Globalization is not a new phenomenon. In fact, there are good arguments that today’sglobalization is far more limited than what the world witnessed at the peak of the colonial era. What Appiah is noticing is not so much the product of the integration of the world’s economies as it is the rise of a cosmopolitan global elite. The second part of this historical

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