I am not arguing that the kind of hugely destructive globalized economy at work in Argentina and in asian sweat shops is a good thing. But it's largely different from the globalization of music.

I tend to agree with that. We are one planet and there is only one music and we all speak it's language.

If Tunisian musicians are talking to western musicians and each are trading musical ideas, there is hope that people who consider themselves to be non musicicans will do the same. It must be better to find common ground rather than flying planes in to each other's buildings, in order to emphasise small areas of disagreement.

We are just speeding up a process that has been going on since the beginning of man/womankind. The process is inevitable, how we deal with it is not..........