Effects of Globalization Towards Our Culture

For over thousands of years, globalization has widely occurred worldwide. Infact, since it had such an impactful widespread among people and families, It stayed throughout its heritage and was passed on to today.

The term globalization can be defined as a process by which societies, regional economies and cultures have been integrated via a global network of transportation, communication and trade. It has both positive and negative impacts in all the areas that it touches on be it economical, social, technology, cultural, political, environment, health or any other. Globalization started to have an impact on businesses world wide in the eighteenth century since that time marks the merging of modernity and globalization. However, in the modern sence, globalization kicked off after the end of Second World War since its during that time that leaders felt the urge to break down the borders

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology (Globalization 101). Globalization has progressively integrated its way into all countries, consequently, it has also integrated its way in the Gwich’n society and the Mosuo people of Southwest China leaving both positive and negative impacts on their traditional culture and society.

Globalization is the process through which the world is slowly but surely getting interconnected. The relation is as a result of the exchange of cultural

Abstract: Globalisation is the process by which earth has really become small. This is the outcome of the human interaction over long distances for the last so many years. Globalisation is a process of international arising from the interchange of the world views and the other aspects of culture. Globalisation has its impact on our country too. This article deals with the effect of Globalisation on Indian Music. India has a very rich tradition of music. This paper throws light on the impact of Indian Music on the lives and interest of music lovers and leaners around the world.

Brinkerhoff, Weitz, and Ortega (2014) define globalization of culture as “the process through which cultural elements (including musical styles, fashion trends, and cultural values) spread around the globe (p. 49). Furthermore, the cultural impact globalization has imparted on American society is clearly evident in the enormous number of choices available, which includes choices concerning food, fashion, and the arts of film, dance, and music (The Impact of Globalization on the Consumer, 2014). For instance, when I dine out and have the choice of a type of cuisine to eat, just in the small city I live, there are at least three of each type of Asian (Thai, Mongolian, Japanese, and Chinese), Mexican, and Italian restaurants.

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Globalization is far reaching in this day and age. Globalization is the worldwide flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture. It leads to a greater interdependence and mutual awareness among the people of the world (Tischler, 2011, 2007, p. 430). One non-Western culture that has been impacted by globalization is China. An example of the impact of globalization on China is their economy. Since joining the World Trade Organization, China has transformed from a culture that relied on economic self-sufficiency and shunned the thought of globalization to an economy that is progressively more open to trade and foreign investment.

The other component that globalization greatly effects is culture. There is an exchange and spread of ideas such as religion, music, food, and traditions within different cultures. Globalization has increased the spread of popular culture easily and efficiently from the developed countries of the North throughout the world. Many media markets in undeveloped countries are saturated with productions from the Northern developed countries. Many have tried to silence the cultural expression, but due to the large globalization of our world the values and cultural taste are underway in the globalization process.

As is evident from the preceding discussion, globalization has greatly affected the culture of all nations worldwide. Some of these are discussed below:

Globalization is an undeniable phenomenon of our modern societies. Global patterns keep spreading in many fields of our everyday life: food, economy, marketing, and last but not least, culture. Cultural products are indeed very often produced following the American pattern and exported to various places around the world. Hollywood blockbusters are huge hits in many different countries, our radios broadcast more and more American songs and even our national singers choose to sing in English rather than in their native language. Globalization is caused by many different factors. Cross-border processes such as interregional trade, employment, population migration and military conquest or colonization probably constitute the main factors (Holton, 2000, 141, 149).

Cultural globalization affects the culture of a country through different ways, such as mass media, Internet and traveling around. It affects the norms and values which is involved in the relationships between the people and their populations and cultural identities. It encourages the connection between different populations and cultures as well. Cultural globalization help diffusing one’s culture through cuisines such as American fast food.Therefore, Ritzer(2008) introduced a word “McDonaldization” which means ”a society adopts the characteristics of an American fast-food restaurant”. Cultural globalization leads to the appearance of hybridization and homogenization. Wang(2007) stated that it helped to bring people closer as globalization has been seen as a trend toward homogeneity that will eventually make human experience everywhere essentially the same. However, Berking(2003) argued that cultural globalization causes the reducing of the cultural diversity. People feel strange to their original cultures.This essay will discuss how cultural globalization affects cultures. The first section will give out China and North Korea as two countries example in order to show out how globalization affects them. Meanwhile, the second section will analyze the two examples and found out whether globalization affects the cultures of the countries in a positive or negative way. The future impact of this phenomenon has yet to be fully studied. This essay will begin such an analysis from a

Cultural globalization has negative aspects because of cultural toadyism, cultural uniformity, and its political influence.

Globalization is commonly examined by simply dissecting its political and economic consequences. As a result, the effects on culture are often overlooked. According to U.S. Census projections, by 2043 non-Hispanic whites will become a minority consisting of 47 percent of the U.S. population (Barreto, et al 1). Examining the world as a whole, a 2015 study by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division found that between 1950-2000, an average of 2.8 million people per year migrated to North America and Europe. From 2000-2015, that rate accelerated to 4.1 million per year. What is more, this study projects that from 2015-2050, 91 million people are expected to migrate to high-income countries and produce an 82 percent increase in population in destination countries. Clearly, the prospect of steady migration and the continuing effects of globalization are expected to produce more multicultural societies. Unfortunately for many, “foreign” has become synonymous with danger (Rothkopf). The debate between cultural unity and cultural plurality dates back to the Greeks where they questioned universal human goodness and the differences between societies. More than two millennia later, the issue of a common versus diverse human culture remains contentious. This paper argues that a diverse human culture is more desirable than a universal culture because states and societies benefit from promoting and protecting diversity.

Globalization simply defined is the intensification of global interactions. The case studies we have studied depict two of the main types of globalization. Economic Globalization, which is the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and tangible services, and Cultural Globalization, the exchange of materials and symbols that represent facts, meaning values and beliefs. When Globalization occurs it usually has a major impact on indigenous cultures. Optimists or “champions” state that the relationship between culture and globalization has positive effects as it creates a balance between nations. Conversely, critics state that relationships between the two have negative effects, leading to the loss or deterioration of a