Globalization Is Neo-Imperialism

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The world is permanently exposed to more and more dynamic changes, in the social, political and economical arena, which directly influence people’s styles and principles of life. They involuntary begin to get used with this new era, some of them from lack of interest or ignorance, others from weariness, but the fact is that they do not comprehend the effect of this phenomenon on the present and future of the world. They do not understand that in fact this new western strategy successfully masked under the name globalization is a new type of dominance of weaker nations by industrialized societies. Something new is happening to the world. It seems to be a centrifugal machine in which everything is stick including people and mixed with a high speed growing day by day. The world is becoming a single place, with formal frontiers. New technologies now shape each domain of people's lives to the point that we are entering a global age. Among all of them, the information and communication technologies are playing a huge role in globalizing the human societies, “leading to the emergence of a network society” 1, and breaking up in a short period of time specific values and traditions which lasted for thousands of years. Furthermore, ICT hand in hand with globalization, “is undermining the nation-state and laying the basis for a cosmopolitan citizenship”.2 Globalization is widely promoted as a new birth of freedom: better connections in a more open world would improve people's lives by making new products and ideas universally available, resolve tensions between old adversaries, breaking down barriers to trade and democratic institutions, and empower more and more people. That’s how America is making up globalization, using an ideological instrument in order to gain more and more power and space in the world. The myth they are creating, a form of false consciousness which

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