Unity in Diversity: Globalisation, Democracy and Cultural Vitality.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Unity in Diversity: Globalisation, Democracy and Cultural Vitality. |
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Author :
Michael B. Leigh |
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Abstract:
This paper focuses upon the highly contested usage of the terms: globalisation, nationalism, democracy and cultural identity and the interplay of these concepts in a culturally vital society, Sarawak. Globalisation has the potential to provide unimagined benefits to human kind, as well as to impose unimagined costs on the weak and dispossessed. What globalisation means to a Kurdish refugee wandering homeless in northern Iraq, is very different to what it means to those of us who enjoy almost instant on-line access to a wealth of information, and exchange of ideas. Politically planet earth is still organized in units known as nations, and it is these nations that are best placed to obstruct or facilitate the processes known as globalisation. The key argument of this paper is that nation-states can only have sufficient strength and integrity to play a positive role if they can expand their democratic basis, and welcome the added strength that flows from fostering cultural vitality.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Michael B. Leigh. (1999). Unity in Diversity: Globalisation, Democracy and Cultural Vitality. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LIV (75): 31-46 |
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