Does the Caribbean Contribute to the Americanization of Its Media?

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

Like many other aspects of the Jamaican way of life, colonialism has shaped the way the media in Jamaica functions, but the country has managed to maintain large elements of its culture.

The world is constantly becoming smaller and smaller as time progresses. A process of globalization is rapidly turning the world as we know it into economic opportunity waiting to be exploited. A large factor in this process is due to the advent of technology which is becoming more and more readily available to lesser developed countries. Countries such as Jamaica and other LDC’s are primary targets of economic globalization. In the film Life and Debt by Stephanie Black, we see the effects globalization has on Jamaican culture, industry, and agriculture.

The documentary depicts globalization as way in which countries are interconnected around the world and affect each other through various economic, social, and political processes. The documentary particularly focuses on the economic affects of globalization, by examining the affects of economic liberalization and the internationalization of finance through organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and structural adjustment programs. Loans given by the IMF to developing countries such as Jamaica do not help them develop, but instead prevent them from advancing economically and socially. The advancements that these loans have guaranteed have not occurred, and the policies that have been imposed with the loans have negatively impacted the majority of the Jamaican population. Many local workers, especially farmers, have lost their jobs as goods are imported from other countries. The country is

Contemporary globalization is an exceptionally multifaceted phenomenon and can be defined as "an intensification of cross-national cultural, economic, political, social and technological interactions that lead to the establishment of transnational structures and the global integration of cultural, economic, environmental, political and social processes on global, supranational, national, regional and local levels" (Huynen, Martens & Hilderink, 2005). The very nature of the American society has experienced insightful and compound changes due to globalization that has brought with it both new opportunities and risks. Similarly, the impacts of globalization

Over the course of the past half-millennium, the 33 countries that now comprise Latin America and the Caribbean have gone through drastic change. Since the discovery of the New World in 1492, each country has gone through some level of colonization by a European power and transition to its current state. During this period the regions have seen political, social, religious and economic transformations of various degrees.

In the present age of globalization, it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners, producers, and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits, commercial activity has recently spread to every corner of the earth. We observe that the continual movement of humans across borders results in new forms of hybrid and creolized cultures. And, we feel that the world around us is moving faster and faster: the rapid circulation of

The effects of European colonization can still be seen today. It can be seen physically in the landscapes of the islands of the Caribbean, and mentally it is still present in some of the inhabitant’s minds. Political struggles should not be ignored as well as many islands have struggled since their independence. Today when many Europeans look back at the peak of their country’s empires they see the Caribbean as a contributing factor. While there is no question as to the wealth generated by the control of the Caribbean islands, one can ask how great these European colonizers were. There are many ways to measure accomplishment, if one measures it just by wealth then European colonization could be considered a success. However, if we were to

As firms increased commerce by expanding their business into markets located in different countries, numerous trade barriers and international restrictions have been progressively disabled. This cross-border trading has changed the once historically distinct and separate national markets into a global marketplace. Now the economies of countries throughout the world have become interpedently linked. This process of global integration is called globalization. However, the impact of globalization expands further than economic transformation and unification. In the Hispanic country of Mexico, globalization has given rise to maquiladoras. The

Using material from Item C and elsewhere, assess the view that media imperialism threatens ‘the cultural identities of many countries’ (Item C, line 12). (18 marks) (January 2010)

The Americas have always been a global influence and will continue to do so. However, on the rise, the Americas were never as strong as they were to be presently. Ranging from the 1750’s up to present day, the shifting of influential ideologies, the copious amounts of political change, external and internal migration, wars, urbanization, industrialization, and militarization all play a part in the development of the Americas we know today. Being a global superpower did not come to us overnight, but rather through centuries of hard work and perseverance, that our country became one of the greatest and most influential.

Besides the media’s wide availability, another major factor that makes the media a powerful influencer over American culture is the media’s ability to select exactly what is spread to these mass audiences. Specific stories and topics can be publicized over others, and others could just be omitted. Since the media is the main source of information for the majority of the population, the stories, topics, and events that the media features on television, newspapers, and websites are what is directly affecting and

The media has played a significant role in American culture. It has influenced our political, social, and economic beliefs for centuries as well as our democratic values. The objective of the media is to provide audiences with fast and reliable news while informing citizens with the latest news coverage. The majority

During the 1990’s, Cuba’s social and political foundations were jeopardized following the collapse of the Soviet Union. For decades, Cuba’s connections with the USSR and The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) sustained the island’s economy through trade, loans, grants, and military equipment (Binns 1996). Since colonial times, the Cuban sugar industry had made the backbone of the country’s main trading commodity, but following the demise of most of its trading partners, Cuba was faced with an economic downturn that required a revaluation on its reliance in sugar. In this economic restructuring, Cuba’s movement to diversify its main source of revenue was fueled not only by the collapse of the USSR, but by neoliberal pro democratic

“Do you believe Caribbean Media are victims or causal factors of the Americanization of Caribbean Culture?”