Hello stacker, we continue to the description session. Maybe many of you have heard of the word The Great Firewall (GFW) which is a form of restriction to people in a country from being free to access information. But maybe the country considers because freedom of information also has a very fatal impact so that they are more careful about their privacy and secrets.
Globalization is a trigger for the development of the issue of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism, because globalization is a process that obscures national borders, integrating economy, culture, technology, and government, so that creating increasingly complex dependency relationships. Besides, Globalization has succeeded in expanding the reach and accelerating the flow of capital, goods, people, and ideas that cross the boundaries of the nation-state.
(Noris, 2000: 155).
In the end it can be said that globalization is a catalyst between cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism. Globalization can create rapid demographic multiculturalism in various countries. inadvertently immediately made it into a test tube. When marginalization occurs in the tube (country), then it can be said that society which is in the tube is not ready to go to the next stage. The culmination is to become a cosmopolitan society. Countries that do rejection of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism is China with running The Great Firewall.
Additional
- Noris, Pippa. (2000). Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens, Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Governance in a Globalizing World, Washington: Brookings Institution Press. Pauline. (1999).
- Six Varieties of Cosmopolitanism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany, Jounal of the History of Ideas, Inc. Pichler, Florian. (2009).
- ‘Down-to-Earth’ Cosmopolitanism Subjective and Objective Measurements of Cosmopolitanism in Survey Research, dalam Current Sociology September 2009 Vol. 57(5): 704–732 Tim, Yuen Siu. (2010).
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