Community work, cultural identity and globalization: between ourselves and others

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that the phenomenon of globalization promoted by the West, has been setting up a scenario that threatens to reduce the identity to a ‘logic of war’ between ourselves and others. It also shows the West from other voices, whose resistance arguments to any reductionist view of human experience question the ‘monolog universalization’ of the West, and urges us to reassess our closest cultural legacy and identity, and to rediscover the communitarian as a realm of gathering and empowerment of those constituent needs and expressions of what is human.