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Desarrolo, cultura e identidad en América Latina

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The author understands culture as more than a result of economic development; he argues that development, itself, is both a fact and a cultural product, based on his wide range concept of culture. According to the text, approaches willing to reduce definitions of development to its economic, social, or any other restrict aspect, only misunderstand the real concept and engender serious mistakes on Government’s action. Moreover, the text states that far from population explosion and absence of resources, problems of social injustice, poverty, social exclusion, disrespect of human rights and aggressions on the environment are basically consequences of the absence of universal ethical values, which is, for sure, a matter that belongs to the field of culture. In this context, education and communication as center places of generation and transmission of values, have on its responsibility the duty of stimulate the change of a world where violence, consumerism, unfair competition and the individualistic fight for survival prevail, to a new planetary society, fair, with solidarity, fraternal, democratic and free.