Sir, – Can globalisation survive the disparity between the values of the West, Russia and China? What use is the fostering of mutual economic growth if your commercial ” partners ” disavow your rights and values to the extent that they will wage war over trivial cultural oversights?
Should we reject liberalism and choose to identify ourselves only through the primitive myopic nationalist lens and regard other cultural and political differences as insurmountable obstacles to harmonious co-existence?
Is it possible that electorates that have never known freedom are so cowed as to be incapable of yearning for equality and freedom? – Yours, etc,
EUGENE TANNAM,
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Firhouse,
Dublin 24.