A. Debeljak: “In praise of hybridity: Globalization and the modern western paradigm”

An interesting article by Ales Debeljak.

"The division of the world into “the West and the rest” is a misrepresentation, writes Ales Debeljak. Cultural globalization is not the transplantation of western ideas and technologies across the planet, but the adaptation of these according to local requirements. Hybridity, the product of a longe durée, is at the heart of the contemporary western paradigm."

Click here for the entire piece from “Eurozine”.