Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,590
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Re: "Ancient Globalization" in Jerusalem?
I suppose that it is possible find models of proto-globalization at many points of history, but modern globalization must be understood as a result of the expansionism of the ideology of American Exceptionalism or, if you prefer, americanizationism.
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et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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