Word: globalizationã
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According to an all-too-popular paradigm, the world today is split along an unbreachable ideological fault-line. On one side stands the proponents of globalization and free trade. On the other stands the forces of the “anti-globalization?? movement, chomping at the bit to tear down international institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the WTO. Needless to say such divisions do indeed exist. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that too often they misrepresent the numerous subtleties of today’s political landscape...
...Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade—we call it globalization??should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity...