Our problem with abroad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1287822,00.html
Britain has become a deeply parochial place in the era of
globalisation
Martin Jacques
Saturday August 21, 2004
The Guardian
It is one of the great cliches of our time. Globalisation has made the
world interdependent to an extent never imagined in the past. We now
enjoy, it is suggested, a new kind of knowledge and intimacy with the
world. We live in a global village. We are all cosmopolitans now: we
can eat food from all over the world, mix with people of many races,
communicate far and wide via email or cheap calls.
Yet in this global era, Britain grows seemingly ever more provincial.
Of course, it was always true that mainstream culture has been largely
parochial - it is probably the case more or less everywhere. There was
never much foreign news in the tabloids, though there is even less
now. But the same trend is evident in the broadsheets. There may be
more correspondents based in the US, but virtually everywhere else
there are fewer. Foreign news, we are told, does not sell: people, in
other words, are not interested.
Martin Jacques
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