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IP: Globalism, tribalism collide in events
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 15:46:21 -0500
" http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg040499.htm Globalism, tribalism collide in events THE ancient and the modern are colliding everywhere, as tribalism confronts globalism, but rarely with such reverberation as in the past week. The collision was spawning agony in the Balkans, where today's highest-tech weapons have failed against some of humanity's most primeval instincts. An ongoing clash was playing out in corporate boardrooms, meanwhile, where giant oil and Internet mergers were redrawing the economic landscape as surely as the Serbs and NATO were trying to redraw the political one. No one should equate the horrors in Kosovo and neighboring lands with financial deals. But these events are all part of a continuing struggle between forces that may never be reconciled: the local vs. the global. "
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