Discriminations behind the scene of a Human and Globalized World

The configuration of the world today is leading to a new global society. The demolition of walls and borders that the most ancient history had raised becomes, in more recent times, a source of union and rapprochement between peoples. This international network leads individuals to broaden their horizons and take on new challenges.

Starting from commercial reasons, and therefore economic and power reasons, the reconciliation between nations becomes a starting point for bringing people together in the name of what we call Human Rights. In addition, the ease of movement - both physical and virtual - allows for an expansion of knowledge. Genuinely speaking, although we are approaching a new worldwide framework, it is still possible to assume that the new globalized world has allowed everybody to 'cultivate' one's knowledge in accordance with one's attitude and interest.

Indeed, cultivating the intellect, in the sense of reasoning, is one of the achievements that modern men (should) have reached, particularly in dealing with different customs from around the world. It is a matter of increasing one's knowledge, therefore reasoning because of evolution and maturity; like the adolescent who becomes an adult, the troglodyte becomes civilized.

From this, we can say that the greater the knowledge, the greater the evolution and, therefore, the degree of civilization achieved. The more we know things, the more we are supposed to know how to deal with them. We deduct that empowering everybody with something that belongs to Humanity brings within the idea of rejecting any disparity and discrimination.

At this point, a question arises, what do we mean by “civilization”? The concept is multifaceted. Man's dominion over nature is an example; likewise, the increased complexity of the political, economic and social structures achieved over time shows an evident transformation in man's progression. However, the term 'civilization' also refers to what we call 'human sensitivity'. This concept applies to physical and emotional feelings by which we perceive ourselves in connection with others end with the environment. And what happens when we touch on this meaning?

Assuming that every day there is at least one episode of physical or verbal violence for reasons of racism and discrimination, to what extent can modern man speak of civilization in terms of human sensitivity?

A Caucasian troglodyte would be justified if he tried to remove a non-member from his cave; he knows nothing but his identity. But modern man? Shouldn't his opening of horizons and increased knowledge be a factor in understanding and accepting others? It could be said that the lightness and lack of awareness of the troglodyte who rages against the unknown translate today to hypocrisy and closure that leads civilized man to the same discrimination.

Globalization has fuelled a phenomenon whereby we tend to over-consider the global identity of man while forgetting that of the human being. We always discuss Blacks, Whites, Asians, and Indians, but we don't discuss men.

A "colour-blind legislation" is conceived on paper, which in practice is nothing but “the right to inequality”. All are falsely equal before the law according to the French revolutionary canons but are necessarily different at the moment of their execution.

The abolition of slavery and the attainment of civil rights for the generality did not really take out social exclusion. A process of (dis) belonging to a global company of which all are members, but only some are shareholders. A false feel-good universalism allows the forces to restrict the freedom of a black by stopping him while driving, but not that of a white.

Millions of people lived and died believing that civilization was already achieved. However, I think we are still barbarians.

Only when we begin to live according to psychological truth - following the logic of the psyche as the soul, as suggested by Freud - and no longer by conventions imposed by dominant egoisms will we no longer need to convince ourselves that we are all equal through laws that remind us of it.