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They think, we must globalize us but do not give away or mortgaging our national cultural heritage. With regard to this fit the questions: is the Government controlling it? How it affects our culture? What measures should be taken in this regard? how Act the cultural industrialists in the country?. Others, however, see globalization as a great opportunity to integrate us into the first world, no longer in politics, nor economic, but in communication and image. And, incidentally, ultimately believe that this international insertion depends not on already elites acting defensively, but masses of anonymous consumers that tune only what they want to see from among multiple and varied offers for all tastes. True, as says it B. Subercaseaux, local cultural industries, cannot ignore globalization and stay on the sidelines, they are not unrelated to the major trends of the contemporary economy: increasing globalisation and after nationalization of the culture (of advertising, the publishing work, audiovisual production, etc.) is no stranger to the internationalization of the economy and the unavoidable relationship between passivity and commodification. Hence, the concern of what should be the role of the State in this scenario that can not shirk, that is already manifesting itself. For b.

Lechner (politics and culture and vice versa, notebooks of Forum 90, State and culture No.5, CINDE, Santiago, Chile, 1993), points out that the State is called to act on an increasingly internationalized cultural field, involves developing a modern cultural policy to assume without more that fact. Globalization is an irreversible fact and, by so, insist in stating in defend national culture against contamination by foreign ideas, only will mean staying in defensive and protectionist positions that lead to nothing. The fact that Latin must be put to the offensive changes, encouraging the free flow of ideas and placing the national cultural production on the international circuit for Lechner, America. But insert the national in the global us placed back on the issue of the promotion of national cultural production. And precisely, the problem of globalization is that national, by itself, does not penetrate into the international market mass and absorbed by foreign, since that there are unequal level cultural exchange structures world must take into account the words of Garcia Canclini (consumers and citizens; Multicultural conflict of globalization: Ed. Grijalbo, Mexico, 1995), that in the cultural area, despite the multiplication of bodies since the 1950s (OAS, ECLAC integrators; LAFTA, etc) or even We have managed to establish forms of cooperation lasting and of reciprocal knowledge between the countries of Latin America.

It remains almost impossible to find Central American books in Montevideo, Bogota, Venezuela or Mexico. We learned by American news agencies, you filmes Mexican, Brazilian and Argentine win prizes at international festivals, but that does not help your images to travel the continent. Our publications, films, and musical works are so little and so bad in Europe and North America as our steel, cereals, handicrafts. In short, what is considering is that there still a commercial disadvantage, we have not taken it, nor we have tried to counter it by way of cultural integration. Therefore, we run the risk of being totally invaded by foreign cultural goods, which is not bad in itself, but it is far to annul to our. UC graduate teaching. Program management of quality and productivity.