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As a result of globalization, I believe there are mostly two kinds of people: those who are joining what I call the idle class, content to adopt a safe rhythm that involves little risk and promises the rewards of mass consumption; and those who will take any risks necessary in order to join the first group. All of them moving at such a fast pace that they can’t realize how valuable their cultural context is and how meaningful their lives could be if they were not hypnotized by global corporations.
I try to lead this debate from my own experiences as an immigrant, and without falling into the usual anti-globalization traps. But this is not a political blog: In the process of researching Global Culture I’ve come across a very diverse group of topics, ranging from soccer to tourism, from BitTorrent to Lonelygirl15, from hackers to outsourcing, from ethnosphere to the noosphere.
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