Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #25 Globalization
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We know as we live in the 21st
century today
that, there is one phenomenon that we cannot
deny. It's the it's in front of us.
We are living with it day in, day
out, every day of our life, which is
globalization. Globalization is a fact. It's not possible
today to deny the fact or to reject
the fact. What could be important for us
is to resist one type of globalization
or types of globalization
when it comes to human dignity and the
way we have to understand that.
Globalization is mainly about 3 things. 1st is
the global the global economy.
Now now the nation state, everything which has
to do with our national regulations,
it's beyond that. The global economy, the free
market,
the neoliberal system
is just everywhere
in all the countries,
and this is the global
economic world. At the same time, globalization,
it's also about,
technology. And all these technologies that we have
now with,
Internet,
with communication, it's also part of this global
world that we are living in. And the
means of this global,
technology in the global
media, for example, and media coverage, it's mainly,
of course, in the north, and this has
an
other side. There is the 3rd dimension of
globalization. It's world culture. It's the way culture
and the world culture is spread from some
centers
and throughout the world.
What can we do with that about this?
1st,
at our level, at our individual level, at
our national level, it's to resist, for example,
with this global economy, in the way we
are dealing with, for example, the product and
what we are consuming and what we are
eating and drinking, and especially during Ramadan.
Are we eating and drinking products that are
coming from this global economy, Or are we
serious about being connected to our country, to
our region, to what we are producing in
our country, what we eat, what we drink,
and the way we are dealing with this.
It also has to do
with, the global technology and the way we
are dealing with, the the way it could
destroy. Because
it's not only that we have social networks
that are coming as means. No. There is
a philosophy. There is culture here. There is
a way of life. And we also have
to be to to be protecting
ourselves in the way we are resisting this
type of globalization
when it comes to our homes, when it
comes to our countries, and undermining
all the principles that we have. The same
when it comes to culture,
in the way the the movies that we're
watching, the music that it spread
all around us, and at the same time,
anything which has to do with
dealing with
uniformity.
World culture is about uniformity,
what we stand for. It's about respecting the
diversity,
everything which is coming from our countries, which
is
part of our creativity
and promoting this creativity.
It's to support
diversity
and not uniformity.
The globalization
when it comes to economic,
dimension, the technological
dimension,
or the cultural dimensions
could be very negative. We have to resist,
and we have to resist at every level.
It's not to think that it has to
be done at the national level. It's beyond
us. It's very simple. And while we fast,
what are you drinking? What are you eating?
The way you dress, what are you watching?
What part
are you giving in your life to this
creativity coming from your roots
and not only obsessed with the global world
and the acceptance
by the global world?
That's also part of our resistance as human
beings. It's part of our spiritual path. It's
to understand in which way the global
can undermine
and destroy
the very roots of our path towards faithfulness.
Remember,
tell the people you love that you love
them. Life is fragile.