Globalization and Culture It is stated in the work of Lieber and Weisberg that culture "in its various forms now serves as a primary carrier of globalization and modern values and constitutes an important arena of contestation for national, religious, and ethnic identity." (2002, p.273) Technology was envisioned by Bill Clinton to be such that would further the cause of liberty however the other side of technology is more ominous in nature. Lieber and Weisberg write that from the view of both an artist and a political scientist it is possible to delve into the meeting of culture and politics with a synergistic effect that enables one to gain a better view that would be gained in a study on culture or politics alone. (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, paraphrased) From all appearances, for everything gained by globalization, something is also lost. The example stated in the work of Lieber and Weisberg ask, "who among us would not be disturbed by, for example, the echo of rap music in an old Barcelona neighborhood, the demise of local food products and neighborhood shops, or the proliferation of the same brand and chain stores from San Francisco to Santiago to Shanghai? (2002, p.274) In this specific work Lieber and Weisberg examine the irrational hatred held for the U.S. By bin Laden and the Taliban and report that there are two primary cultural anxiety factors and those are (1) globalization; and (2) American primacy. (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, p. 277) There are therefore two reactions identified globally to globalization and those are specifically cultural symbolic reactions and culturally intense reactions or in other words polar opposite reactions to globalization. American primacy while viewed as irritating by the more modernized countries that are larger and weld more power such as Japan and the same can be said for Europe however, to smaller more vulnerable countries American primacy is viewed as threatening and overpowering. Leiber and Weisberg relate that a phenomenon that emerges...

Appiah (2006) notes that the 21st century "urban geographies of privilege have been exacerbated by globalization and cosmopolitanism. However, the ability to "become a cosmopolite is necessarily circumscribed by socioeconomic factors." (2002, p.278) Foer writes that the events of September 11, 2001 "formed another convergence where geographies of privilege and challenge intersected." (2005) It is reported by Lieber and Weisberg that the hatred of bin Laden and the Taliban which was directed at the United States was more for the purpose of having killed than for the purpose of attempting to make policy demands" therefore showing how the Taliban hates not only the U.S. government but the entirety of the American society and the American way of living which reflects that the grievance of bin Laden and the Taliban was not "only what our leaders do, but also who we are." (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, p. 278) According to Lieber and Weisberg such a "transference of deep-seated rage about turmoil and humiliation within their own societies into bitter attacks upon the United States can be understood in many ways, but above all it represents a sublimation of anger and its redirection toward a source that has little to do with the problem in the first place." (p.293) According to Samuel Huntington "cultural characteristics and differences are less mutable and hence less easily compromised and resolved than political and economic ones." (2002, p.275) This may help to understand the odd choices that are made by groups and individuals in which the choice is clearly against the best interest of the group or individual. Americans are held to have made an art…