With the age of technology having increasing control upon all of humanity, it is often hard to disagree these days over the extent to which cultures have a certain influence upon a global audience. The global phenomenon that is East Asian culture has a large authority on many other cultures. It seems to be that, what Edward Said referred to as, ‘the other’ has a large impact on the rest of the world. Globalization is an occurrence that is fed by this otherness upon most of the world. Anywhere from economic impact to media, East Asia has a major impression on the rest of the world. In the times to come, East Asia is going to grow and expand to have even more of a bearing on the rest of the world. The days of a seemingly inconsequential East Asia populace is in the past and is being replaced with a superpower that cannot be suppressed. In particular, Kung Fu cult movies and Indian media has an unmaintainable effect on the rest of the world; their otherness is both attractive and effective for reaching this global audience.
Globalization is a lexicon of many definitions and characterizations. “Globalization is a complicated process of various “political, economic and cultural flows” among the global, the national, and the local, and therefore may not make everybody equally happy” (Berry, Liscutin, and Mackintosh 103). This belief is due to Polish sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman and is a definition that many tend to agree with. Globalization is something that connects many cultures together with the link of cultural or economic influence. The nations of the world are increasingly being interconnected each and everyday. At the supermarket, an individual can find many ethnic cuisines within reach. The ability to buy products from around th...
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In 2010, Andrew C. McKevitt wrote an article, “’You Are Not Alone!’”: Anime and the Globalizing of America”, about how Japanese animation, most commonly known as anime, helped globalize America. McKevitt has a PhD. from Temple University and is now working as an assistant professor a Louisiana Tech University in U.S. History. History of Foreign Relations, and Modern Europe. McKevitt is highly qualified to write an article about how American globalization was effected by anime and if he was not qualified then he would not have been published by The Society for History of American Foreign Relations. McKevitt’s article is an eye opener to how a small group of individuals’ wishes can be met on such a global scale.
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Globalization is defined as “the historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents (Baylis, 2014).”
The definition of globalization is, “Globalization is the connection of different parts of the world. Globalization results in the expansion of international cultural, economic, and political activities. As people, ideas, knowledge, and goods move more easily around the globe, the experiences of people around the world become more
Globalization is the connection of different parts of the world. Globalization results in the expansion of international, cultural, economic, and political activities. As people, ideas, knowledge, and goods move easily around the globe, the experiences of people around the world become more similar. (“Definition of Globalization“, n.d., ¶ 1)