Finally the workshop started a discussion on the globalization process. The speaker presented two models on how globalization happened: a rational model and a cultural model. WRT the rational model, we have discussed the “race to the bottom/top” theory; for the cultural model, we have discussed the expansion of models. What’s interesting about the discussion is the diversity of views among fellow SJDs. On the same phenominon, they had dramatically different understanding. You can imagine how different their comments are on the 1000-face globalization. It is simply too much work for me to repeat their views, so I give up.

A comment from the work shop (about the soft international norms such as guidlines):

“So it means ‘better to be hypocrats than to be jerks’.”