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Chapter 18 | Mircea Vultur (continued) I would say here that the cultures of smaller societies, Canadian, Québécois or Eastern European, are increasingly becoming cultures of interference in the context of globalization. They are ruled by the principle of the search for identity and the integration of contradictory cultural elements. Obsessed by the lack of the possibility of cultural dissemination, and referring to a core they despise or value, those societies see their local creativity stimulated and, as a result, develop a culture that integrates different perspectives that become a shield against homogenization. Thus margins become as interesting as the core. Under these conditions, as underscored by John Meisel, a scenario that forces a choice between the folding back of an identity or the hegemony of a globalized culture of the American type becomes totally irrelevant. 3. conclusion The new cultural order which is emerging from the context of globalization is a real project of civilization where cultures are completing each other without excluding themselves, where they reinforce each other without weakening themselves, where they get together without becoming similar. In a world where cultural diversity is becoming, as Fernand Harvey put it, “the only true way for maintaining humanism at the core of culture,” the universal will be implemented through the recognition of particularities. This recognition is also a preliminary condition for setting up a real dialogue among people. From that perspective, globalization can be seen by smaller societies as a political, economic and cultural opening. The citizens of those societies should not be discouraged by that challenge; rather it should prompt them to overcome it with enthusiasm. references
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