ABSTRACT
With the spread o f communication and information technologies, the resultant shrinking world has become “a global village.” With this spread, economic, social, cultural, and political relations are being globalized, and continue to spread to even the remotest comers o f the Earth. People are engaged in a fierce struggle to become citizens o f this village. As the village leader, America makes its commanding presence felt and tries to define relations between the villagers. Now that communism has been effectively consigned to history, America’s trinity of capitalist ideology, laicism and secularism strives to convey its message to all residents of the global village; to divest them o f all vestiges o f their histories, traditions and cultures, and to “help” them to become “modem.”
