PROS AND CONS OF GLOBALIZATION FROM ASIAN PERSPECTIVE

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  • Wook Chang

Abstract

I would like to discuss what the Asian nations should accept and what they should reject from the Western nations.

As we all know, the common ultimate end of man is the selfperfection and self-achievement as a rational being, as a person. Therefore, the primary task of all nations should be the promotion of the common human values, which transcend all racial, ethnic and cultural differences, in view of that common human end. The ultimate purpose of globalization also cannot be other than the promotion of such common human values.

As is known, Western culture is founded upon the two pillars of the Judeo-Christian culture and Greco-Roman culture. The Western nations should retain these original inspirations of their culture and should promote such spiritual values as freedom and human rights, which are of Christian inspiration.

While it is true that the Asian nations have much to learn, and accept, from the Western culture in the areas of human and empirical sciences and in technology, they should, however, resist as much as possible the infiltration of the more decadent aspects of present-day Western culture, which manifest themselves in the concrete forms of secularism, materialism, utilitarianism, hedonism, neoliberalism, and militarism.

Author Biography

Wook Chang

Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2005): January - June 2005

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