ABSTRACT
Thomas Klak and Garth Myers argue that the governments of countries such as Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and Haiti, and many others in the Caribbean, are selling their countries and people to foreign investors in nontraditional export sectors. This chapter attempts to shed light on globalization and its necessary outcome—the institutionalization of poverty throughout the Third World—within the relational signs of the Protestant ethic, considering Ferdinand De Saussure's analysis of the relational means by which terms in a structure are delimited. It interprets the impacts of globalization using the case of the Grenadian government, which has adopted forcibly this way of life. Social theorists must understand the globalization process within anthropological notions to grasp better the nature (structural) of resistance movements. A secular and rapacious version of the Protestant ideology becomes the governance of social actions in realities.
