Examples Of Cultural Globalization

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"Globalization represents different realities, norms, values, and meanings that not only legitimate and advance neoliberal interests, but also seek to cultivate consumerist cultural identities in billions of people around the world." (Feidman, Thomas. The World is Flat. P 52).
The term “globalize” started being used in the modern times. However globalization is an idea that has been brought up since even before the 1500’s when people started forming connections between communities, and therefore creating forms of communication. In the modern era we call it "Globalization" which is known for being a process of a world wide connection and integration in many different ways. Usually It is almost always about international trade, foreign investment,and capital flow. But what about culture, identity, and traditions? True, if globalization is viewed strictly from economic terms, then the debate delves into trade barriers, protectionism and tariffs. Powerful countries demand that smaller countries break down all trade barriers, while maintaining a level of protectionism over their own. Smaller countries, knowing that they cannot do much to hide from the hegemonic nature of globalization, form their own economic clubs, hoping to negotiate fairer deals. But between diplomacy and threats, dialogue and arm twisting, the side of globalization with which most of the people are familiar; there is another side of globalization: cultural globalization. In this paper, I will be arguing that the social cultural impact of globalization is good, and it does not result in monoculture. And the opposition is: the social cultural impact of globalization is bad, and it results in monoculture. Before I start my argument, I w...

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...ch are forms of communication that are categorized under the term"globalization". Globalization brings all cultures together by connecting them but yet it recognizes their identities at the same time.
“God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns…He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples…He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America…we will not renounce our part in the mission of the race, trustee under God, of the civilization of the world.” - Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge.

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