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Globalization was supposed to align the values. They're diverging


Many predicted that globalization would cause the world's values to converge around freedom and personal rights. This hasn't happened.

The Present — May 2, 2024 "Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world." Joshua Conrad Jackson, an assistant professor of behavioral science at the Booth School of Business, and Dan Medvedev, a final-year PhD student in behavioral science at the Booth School of Business, teamed up for the study, published on April 9 in the journal Nature Communications. “Chinese politicians have spoken against countries that ‘forcibly promote the concept and system of Western democracy and human rights.

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