Cultural Diversity EXCERPTED TEXT/OVERVIEW: What is the significance of Culture, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, regional or otherwise, when faced with the ever-stronger power of market forces in this era of corporate globalization and consolidation? As the world’s strongest multi-national corporations continue to consolidate, absorbing competitors and spreading their influence from Europe to Asia, to Africa, to the Americas and throughout the Middle East, at what point do nations themselves — not to mention each nation’s individual citizens — cede power to these massive economic forces and thereby also cede their national identity to a new world order of a corporation-induced “Global Culture”? Will Culture diminish to the point that English will be the world’s sole language 100 or 200 years from now? Will architecture continue to cede to the “international school” to the point that one could be in Dallas, Kuala Lumpur, Buenos Aires or Lyon and never know the difference from one’s surroundings? Will we allow the onslaught of global capitalism to virtually eliminate Culture and the individualism and the indispensable human heritage which Culture nurtures and fosters? (. . . Complete article available in the Journal Archives) General Editorial Overview Journal Home Copyright © 2002-2011 The Bibliotheque: World Wide Society