Arts & International Affairs: Volume 2, Number 2 | Page 184

can be drawn in global interactions between white police and black people.
The white police fears are illogical and morality is absent in actions taken
against these and other minorities. But fear is not dependent on either logic
or morality.
In the wake of globalization, fear of difference has spread like a fire. New is
interpreted as dangerous. While some may blame this trend on nationalist
rhetoric, it should be pointed out that nationalist rhetoric makes a lot of
sense when it explains how the economically disadvantaged have suffered
from globalization. Jobs and opportunities have been shipped overseas.
The argument comes full circle when the impoverished person views the
outsider who has taken his job as a threat to his very existence.
However, it is important to remember that cultures continuously evolve and
that no one culture or ideology can remain in its purest form indefinitely.
Therefore, the global village will only work when the people at the bottom
benefit from it. The need to expand one’s horizons comes from having
exhausted what is already familiar. But the people at the bottom have barely
scrapped what is around them, so why would they want to look outward?
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