Globalization and cultural diversity (conference at the Museum of Dominican Man)

This text reproduces the lecture that Isidoro Moreno, then director of the Institute for Latin American Studies of the University of Seville (IEAL), held at the Museum of the Dominican Man, in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), on February 1, 2011. The text develops a critical analysis of the concepts of globalization and cultural diversity, pointing out their dangers and socio-political potentialities. The author proposes the term glocalization, which synthesizes both the global and local components of contemporary social dynamics while rejecting any form of cultural homogenization.