The topic of this paper is globalization of hybrid cultures. In presenting the theoretical and practical challenges of a hybrid culture, he asks (1) how to hybrid cultures constituting modernity can be studied and given a specific profile in Latin America; (2) how the partial knowledge of the different disciplines on culture can be combined in better interpreting the contradictions and the failure of modernization; and (3) what should be done with the mix of "heterogeneous memory and truncated innovations." He writes on his concept of Latin America as "a more complex articulation of traditions and modernities, a heterogeneous Continent," consisting of coexisting countries with multiple forms and levels of development. In order to see through the heterogeneity, he believes that the anti-evolutionist approach to postmodernism is useful and "more radical" than anything before it. This posture can break through and detect "fundamentalist pretensions of traditionalism, ethnicism, and nationalism."
