Globalization

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This paper explains that Gallic cultural 'softness', encapsulated in the drive against the 'challenges' of globalization is a logic predicated on female principles rather than the masculine principle, one characterized by globalization---"might makes right". The author points out that one cannot have globalization without first having the concept that what one nations has is better than what another country has; implicit in this concept is the idea that the subordinate nation will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into parity with the superior nation or nation. The paper concludes that the modern world no longer has the divine right of kings with which to justify imperialism; instead, globalism had to be created to justify the divine right of corporations.

Table of Contents
The Beginnings of Revolution: France
Imperialism Revisited and Reinvented
Modern Icons of Imperialism
Saying the Right Thing
Conclusion

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"In the late 1700s, as for most of its history (Charlemagne, the Louis dynasty), France has been ruled by authoritarian men. Krishnan (1996) contends that was no less true in 1995, when globalization and French dissent ran headfirst into each other, with intellectuals-who might and usually are linked with the feminine principle-supporting the peasants in their protest against a complex of changes designed to make their lives 'better' and more global, which they saw as shorthand for robbing the poor to pay the rich. Krishnan writes, of the standoff between French railway workers and the state, "An explosive French political and social life in turn is linked to the authoritarian nature of the political system. The president is all-powerful for seven years, and with the current huge majority held by the president's allies in parliament there is little space or motivation for compromise." Compromise is often seen as a feminine principle."

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