ABSTRACT
While most theorists focus on economics and global capital as the drivers of globalisation, Anthony Giddens notes that it also involves changes to the role and status of nation-states, a reconfiguration of the world's military order and an international division of labour. This chapter explores the cultural dimensions of globalisation. The era of globalisation has introduced an unprecedented level of interest on the part of citizens in western nations in the cultural practices and forms of government of foreign states. There is a much greater level of knowledge of other peoples on the part of many people in western nations. The creation of such a cosmopolitan outlook brings with it a range of ethical concerns. It is this ethical and practical commitment that makes cosmopolitanism both an ethical and a political stance. A feature of moralism is that it is a willingness to criticise or interfere when one is not the appropriate person to do so.
