Tuy nhiên, trẻ em nông dân và các hộ nhỏ mạnh mẽ cải thiện vị trí tương đối trong khoảng thời gian từ 1938-1942 và 19681972 đoàn hệ. Vào cuối của thời kỳ này, các điểm đến giáo dục của họ thuận lợi hơn so với những trẻ em nông nghiệp và không có tay nghề lao động chân tay. Họ cũng rõ ràng là tốt hơn so với những người | CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALIZING WORLD 197 Globalization undoubtedly creates all kinds of divides and disconnects There is the economic divide social divide cultural divide and digital See UNDP Report of 1999 . There is the widening gap between countries and among countries. Values upheld are competitiveness extreme individualism consumerism materialism having not being . All institutions including educational institutions become more market-driven than vision-mission. Organized greed is experienced as opposed to organized care. The great majority of peoples in most developing countries living in rural villages has been and is becoming unconsciously uprooted from their traditional indigenous cultures by major social changes - industrialization urbanization mass education and mass media. Presently these processes are hastened by a highly capitalistic globalization. In families and communities of former times there was once a high degree of mutuality and reciprocity. Economic life was characterized by natural exchanges of goods and services barter . Social life was regulated by a simple multi-functional organization where communication is unmediated - a face-to-face interaction. However the dominant culture that emerged through colonialism revolved around the system of a monetized economy. The personal solidarity particularism has been replaced by impersonal solidarity through law universalism . The West on the one hand especially Western Europe has had the time to balance capitalism with socialism through social legislation and the operation of welfare states. The developing countries on the other hand will have to leap into resolving the gaps by a socially relevant educational system which itself however tends to support the market. A life that used to rely on the abundant bio-diversity of resources from the seas and the land when countries were scarcely populated have been devastated through exploitation of natural resources by .
