Cultural Homogenization: The Dangers Of Cultural Globalization?

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In our largely ethnocentric (The idea that your own group or culture is better or more important than others) daily lives, we really take-for-granted our way of living and we often lose sight of the fact that there are other ways of living and in so doing, we forget that there is much we can learn from other cultures. Culture is defined as something relating to a set of shared attitudes, values, belief, practices, ideas and social behaviours of a society that differ depending on the language you speak, where you live and your religious beliefs. So we ask if it matters if cultures are lost if some cultures are on the verge of extinction but even preserving those tiny indigenous languages and cultures are vital to keep the world a diverse multicultural place and to learn different ways of living and multiple other things from each other. Cultural globalisation (Cultural globalisation refers to the exchange of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend social relations, advancements in technology are the main cause of it) has is making it …show more content…

In fact yes it does matter is cultures are lost no matter how small they are because when a culture dies you lose a whole different way of seeing the world although there are some upsides to cultural globalisation.

The largest indicator of this decline in cultural diversity is language loss. The loss of linguistic diversity (lots different languages being spoken in different places) is a big threat around the world, and this threat is mostly felt by indigenous peoples because as there numbers are small and their healthcare not at the same standard and us in the modern world their language is at a higher threat of dying out. “A language is a

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