The Convention for cultural diversity and the empowerment of minority cultures * (continued)

Consider an example. Today considered a non-advanced countries in the periphery of the global village, the company has entered Haiti from the beginning of its history, a cultural trajectory, the result of global economic relations since the days of slavery to that of neoliberalism. This gives both its common features with other companies in the continent and its profound originality (Pierre-Charles cit. Houtard in Remy and, id. 13). The cultural configuration of Haiti stems from the encounter of several currents of Amerindian civilizations, African, European, who competed in the New World during the slave stage of the global capitalist economy. Indeed, culture and Haitian society, from their period of gestation, were marked by globalization, the result of the hegemonic thrust of Europe from the late fifteenth century ... (ibid. 19). But "is still working through the Haitian intellectual production, such as through social and political practices, a system of thought organized around the old couple barbarian / civilized while all the elite of Haiti, from the earliest moments of the independence, is eager to provide proof of non-barbarism of the Haitian people, and somehow continue to desperately search for a cure of the barbarism that the master colon imputed ... " (Hurbon 1987:14-15). The Creole language created by the majority slave from Africa to colonial Haiti, and Haiti's diverse cultural expressions (such as the rara, the lodyans, etc..) Are perceived as unable to be broadcast in national and international media in favor of foreign cultural expressions unrelated to the Haitian cultural identity. When it uses it for use point of view of folk, that is to say unrelated to their materiality historical, economic and political.

Thus, instead of asserting their identity and culture in globalization, elites producing cultural works in developing countries coincide with the Haitian elite, by adopting the same attitude. They seek rather to respect the canons and criteria prevailing in world trade, excluding contempt or even elements of cultural identity and traditional minority groups, they often regard as "unworthy" of globalization standards. Often, they become very hostile to any kind of cultural resistance on the part of holders of minority cultures.

Respect of human communication as a spearhead

Taking again the example of Haiti, the Belgian sociologist Francois Houtart and Haitian anthropologist Anselme Remy recall that during the eighteenth century cultural identity was an element of resistance to the imposition of dramatically unequal social relations. Indeed, as shown by these authors, local so-called minority cultures contain within themselves the potential of their emancipation. The Convention on Cultural Diversity merely offer a universal legal framework favorable. So the big clash between culture and globalized world of representations and values socially constructed according to the collective experiences of peoples is not a foregone conclusion. Those who proclaim the advent of a single global civilization, driven by market values and serving the summit of human history are likely to see their predictions turn into illusions ... The globalization of culture is under the hegemony of the market and local culture are the basis for many forms of resistance ... (Houtard and Remy: 173). Hence the invitation to civil society organizations, national and international creativity and aggressiveness to win the battle for cultural diversity for social groups, peoples and minority cultures. Battle with the promotion of human communication for the democratization of communication is the spearhead. For, according Wolton, culture and communication are the real challenges of the twenty-first century, the globalization of communication raises once and for all the question of otherness and being a political issue, it should be treated politically. Indeed, "communication and politics, the issue is the same: to organize the coexistence ... In summary, initially, we must admit the importance of cultural identity. In a second time, we must recognize that cultural diversity is unsurpassable. In a third step is to organize cultural coexistence which is the complement of political democracy "(Wolton: 96). * Published in the journal Media Development, February 2006 http://www.waccglobal.org/fr/20061-celebrating-cultural-diversity/566-La-Convention-pour-la-diversité-culturelle-et-l 'emancipation-of-cultures-minoritaires.html. Media Development is a biannual publication of WACC (World Association for Christian Communication): www.waccglobal.org (1) See UNESCO website: www.unesco.org Bibliography: - Boron Artilio, NEOLIBERALISMO, globalizacion y desigualdad en America Latina, in Tiempos Violentos, CLACSO-EUDEBA-Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999; - Nestor Garcia Canclini, La globalización in pedazos: integración y la comunicación breaks in, in DIALOGOS de la Comunicación-FELAFACS, May 1998 - Jean Casimir, culture oppressed, Port-au-Prince, Imp. Lakay, 2001; - Houtard Francis and Anselme Remy, Haiti and the globalization of culture, CRESFED, L'Harmattan, Port-au-Prince, Paris, Montreal, 2000; - François Houtart, Samir Amin, Ignacio Ramonet, in state of resistance in the world, ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec. 05-January 2005; - Lagree Jean-Charles, Cultural Production and Social Movements in the popular culture, s / n. - Armand Mattelart, Diversity and Globalization, La Découverte, Paris, 2005; - Armand Mattelart, in the revolution in communication, ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, July-August 1999; - Ignacio Ramonet, Thinking in the twenty-first century ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, July-August 2000 - UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity, 2005 - UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2001 - Dominique Wolton, TV and civilizations, Labor, Brussels, 2004 Ary Regis Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of WACC-Caribbean, Professor of Social Communication at the Faculty of Humanities (FASCH) of the State University of Haiti, a member of SAKS (Animation Society in Social Communication)