On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Yuwei Lin wrote:
> Oppose!
> Of course this will be a global war. Any war happened on the earth will
> influence one another, not only from the political perspective, but also a broad
> array of issues such as religional, cultural, ethnical, environmental,
> economical etc. Especially this is a global era, no one can really set
> themselves outside the world. To see any war as regional or local is wrong and
> narrow-minded, particularly this mistake happened on a sociologist!
Hey, hey, hey: calm down. It is a big difference between a "global
war" (eg. the west vs. the rest) and the statement that local or
regional events and processes can have some effects and infect other parts
of the globe (back to the old functionalist homeostatic presumptions?).
A good sociologist must be able to make distinctions between different
phenomenon. Globalization is not chips with everything.
bk.
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