Challenges of Globalization and Ethical Pluralism PDF

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Challenges of Globalization and Ethical Pluralism: The Search for Universal Values

Good morning, I am Dimple Mae Carillo, the Sk Chairman of Catayauan, Lallo Cagayan, hoping to share my knowledge about our theme “Challenges of Globalization and Ethical Pluralism: The Search for Universal Values.” I feel happy and honored to see youths and members of the Church get interested in knowing and learning the challenges of Globalization and Ethical Pluralism in search of Universal Values. Globalization has been incessantly happening, and I know a lot of us consider it to be beneficial in terms of economic progress. However, it is time for us to open our eyes with what it took to achieve all the progress we are experiencing today, an example would be our loss of cultural identity. Globalization inevitably pushes us to fit in as the world changes, thus resulting to our loss of respect to cultural diversity. Another challenge would be job loss, where many services and unskilled labor have been outsourced to developing countries, leaving the underdeveloped behind. This is then where Ethical Pluralism comes in the conversation, some people may see these changes to be right while some who are mostly affected find it wrong and incompatible with their moral norms. Just as what Bernard Adeney claimed, we lose sight of the ill-effects of globalization because it also resulted to the existence of technology, growth, and development. With these, I want everyone here to start asking themselves what we had to become in order to adjust with the imminent growth and development of the world. Did it somehow increase our desire to start wanting more? Did the progress and modernity that globalization brings resulted to our insatiable need of what is not necessary? And lastly, as we assess ourselves, do we consider everything and everyone as mere commodity or do we consider them equally indispensable?

Can we blame the imminent growth and development of the world with regards to the increase of our desire to start wanting more than what is necessary? -

CONSUMERISM, MATERIALISM, COMODIFICATION We’re forced to adapt and fit in.

If you assess yourself, do you consider everything and everyone as mere commodity or do you consider them equally indispensable? -

I always consider everyone as equally important because to me all things that matter to me contribute to my well being...