Self Introduction:

The Ecoterm meeting 2006 took place at FAO and was co-organized by Margherita Sini from my Group

Enormous building full of marble and light and mogano in a still more enourmous town in the centre of the Pearl River Delta, sense of oversizing.

One of the accusations agains globalization is that it would even out differences between cultures and would make the world a boring place of all the same shops, food, music and so on. Only MacDonalds, Bennetton and Hollywood.
Apart from the fact that cultural differences cannot be maintained and defended by ordinances from well meaning lefties (Wine drinking now becomes an abit all over the globe simply because it is a pleasure and why should Asians to be allowed to....) , there are also two important objections against this thesis of cultural flattening.

Another common criticisms of globalization is the the theory of cultural imperialism by western values. But shouldn't we ask before about the values and why some western values are so successful all over the world at least in the sphere of desire? Thinkings like: - a Human Live is a value by itself and to be defended - the law should rule and not the force - individual freedom is a right of everyone have been codified first in the declarance of independence and the American constitution as a consequence of development of political thinking in Europe.

This little drawing documents some of my thoughts about values

In Italy there is no evidence that the facilitation of time limited employment actually gives growth to "precariato", it seems more that it simply opens the way to employment. See article of Pietro Ichino in Corriere della sera

https://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Economia/2006/04_Aprile/26/ichino.shtml

Particularly important is the unchalleged conviction that the family is both, natural and good. Unlike Greece, for instance, where the private realm of the family was not given the positive evaluation of the public realm of the polis in China devotion to family was taken as an obvious good. Laozi's utopia is not one that liberates the individuals from the family; but one that lets families operate with little or no pressure from soical or political units much larger than the viallage.

Whether from a Confucian, a Legalist, or even a Daoist perspective, law was viewed as an expedient, not as something noble or inviolable, or something that exists above and beyond the ruler

Sicher mehrere - und auch viele Facetten, und Unterschiede zwischen Europa und America. Die folgenden Ausfuehrungen sind sicher persoenlich gepraegt, aber nicht nur!