A different world
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Do you think there could be a way (besides "everyone is fucking racist") our society could've become less globalized? And what are the factors that led to globalization and the assimilation of everything?
Do you think cultures, costumes, warfare and everything could've stayed more 'unique' in a way, into the 1900s for example, with not so much changing in our history?
I'm always thinking that the ancient times were extremely diverse, both in culture, manners, costumes and in warfare. Different peoples behaved extremely different. Under other circumstances, could the same be applied to a world hundreds, even thousands of year later?
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Nope.
Globalisation is an inevitable product of capitalism. And capitalism will always win. Too much money to be made selling air-con to Africans etc
>>388740
So, you're basically saying that in a world that has no capitalism, there would be much less room for globalization?
So then, what should've happened for the world to change like that?
Let's get some kind of alternate history going
>>388785
I think I'm saying capitalism and globalization are practically the same thing. Globalization is a symptom of capitalism like a runny nose is a symptom of a cold.
I don't think there could be any serious alternate history here. If you have two stone age tribes who begin to trade with each other, eventually they will begin to resemble each other as ideas and artifacts swap between them, and the distinction between them will become meaningless.
>>388852
I don't think so. Eventually they'd be fucking each other, so now not only are they similar in technology and culture, but their ethnicity is the same. Maybe they would consider themselves separate but I think to an outsider they would be identical.
Of course there could still be differences. Yorkshire and Lancashire still pretend to hate each other even though they can only be distinguished by trained observers.
>>388871
Then what if humans actually HAD different races, that could not mix with each other. Would that make things different?
Transportation and communications technology along with political and economic liberalism destroyed space and time. Socialism and liberalism are both the anti-thesis of culture. Human culture was just an historic anomaly.
>>388880
Oh that's easy to answer. The smartest most ruthless race would have exterminated the others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction
>tfw you read that first sentence
>mfw my ancestors were the smartest most ruthless race
>>388710
No, there is universal advantage to being able to form supply chains from anywhere to anywhere. This is true in capitalism, it was true for monarchy, it is true for any system. The world where people did not eventually form a global system is a world where people went extinct.
>>388914
>alternate world
>it's just modern state borders with a few exceptions
>>388710
Maybe if Hitler had won. Globalization has always been the primary project of the international jew.
>tfw you live in a globalized world
>globalisation
>a bad thing
When will this meme end?
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