It is pretty clear that all European societies have been changing a lot recently, due to the globalization phenomenon. This process implies several sub-processes, out of which the most important are those which affect economic structures. They motivate scientific and technological discoveries, stimulating international competition. Scientific and technological changes may have various effects, either positive (such as the transplant techniques, better drugs) or negative ( such as the environment pollution or the guns devised for mass destruction). All these processes are closely interconnected and one of their delayed effects is a change in the basic cultural values of contemporary societies. As a matter of fact, many events (including the fall of communism) indicate that the cultural era inaugurated by the European Enlightenment is reaching its final stage. The Enlightenment ideas, such as the concept of natural law or man's natural rights, were formulated at the end of an era symptomatically affected by long religious wars. European societies still believe in progress and perfectibility reached through a continuous expansion of reason and knowledge. From an economic perspective, the belief according to which any individual benefit engenders a social one is emblematical for the capitalism's coming into being. The Enlightenment ideas engendered radical reforms in the education system and led to industrialization, the French and American revolutions and the whole socio-economic and cultural evolution of the last 300 years. All these changes influenced each other through a continuous "feedback " mechanism. On a deeper level of analysis, we might even say that a certain cyclicality characterizes this evolution which engendered the hypothesis of the "lasting" cultural values. The duration of such a "long cultural wave" is T -300-400 years. Generally speaking, T is made u