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The Importance Of Cultural Globalization

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Cultural globalization supposes, not only empiric human contacts among civilizations (transporter revolution), but also intellectual instruments of understanding among contact groups in a more or less brutal manner. Let us call humanist sciences those intellectual instruments, having a wide enough meaning: history, philology, linguistics, archeology, sociology, philosophy. Trying to create a global culture, an important role is played by foreign languages. English is undoubtedly placed in the top of hierarchy, being used both in Romania and in the whole world in all its types: written, spoken, formal, informal as well as registers specialized for economy, law, technique, journalism etc. It has become lingua franca by excellence and keeps on strengthening this domination through a process of self consolidation. It also reached Romania as the main language of international communication in the field of business, policy, administration, science and academic world, being as well the dominant language of global publications and popular culture. The main language in the field of computers is English, being the written language for Windows and Internet protocols. At the same time, English is the language used in safety procedures, such as air traffic control. “Over two thirds of total scientists in the world write in English, three quarters of international correspondence is written in English and 80% of information in recovery systems of world electronic data is stocked in

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