We Are Not The World By Greg Ip Summary

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“We Are Not the World”, written by Greg Ip, is an article that explains that the current issues of the world, instead of being based on the struggles between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’, it is actually based on the struggles between globalists and nationalists. Ip speaks about how nationalists believe that globalism is indeed an ideology and should be treated as such despite others feeling that it is not. Throughout the article, Greg reiterates when globalism prevailed and when it fell, and gives reasons and several key points for why it rose and fell. A major key point of the article is that the “new nationalist surge” (Ip, 2017) is heavily against globalization as well as globalism. Unlike other parties, new nationalists see globalism as

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