English abstract
The world today lives at a pace of mixtures and entanglements, and there are no unified, harmonious cultures that live in distinct cultural spaces in the contemporary world, and the global integration created by the economic and media revolution in light of what has become known as globalization has moved the process of cultural interaction and friction in a rapid and sometimes arbitrary manner, which has brought about transformations Radical and cultural tensions, as a result of the difficulty of realizing and assimilating the values of the cultural systems of the other on the one hand, and the concept of "development" has become one of the prevailing concepts in our time, especially since the emergence of a group of newly independent countries that were described as "backward" countries, and are now described - perhaps only politely - In developing countries, not in the sense that they have actually grown and reached the rank of "advanced industrialized" countries, but only because they are on the way to growth, or rather their people aspire to that, and as a result of cultural arrogance and self-centeredness, which prevents recognition of the right to cultural difference on the other hand. This opened the door to several non-Western cultural spaces feeling the need to "confront" the Western cultural tide, by focusing on "origins" and "cultural specificities as a weapon, and as a reaction against the sweeping wave of Westernization." The vast gap between the North and the South at all levels has made the poor people take refuge in the cultural worlds to prove themselves and express their dissatisfaction and denunciation of injustice and backwardness, and their concern about the uncertain future. development, and therefore they always seek to maintain their position for the longest possible period, monopolizing privileges and diverting the benefit from economic and social projects in their favour, in addition to centralizing decision-making at the higher levels without taking into account the people at the lower levels. Added to this is the spread of illiteracy, the low level of health, the high death rate, the high birth rate, child labor, and the absence of the role of women in the productive process.
