Cultural Globalization

1) summarize in your own words of materials you read
 'Cultural globalization' is very familiar word these days. but i think it is not involved correct understanding that mean. In fact it is hard to understand exact meaning of Cultural globalization. To understand that meaning, we need to understand 'globalization' and 'cultural' separately. 'Globalization is increasing global connectivity in the field of economy, politics, and culture. we are living in a much more globally connected world today. Eating foreign food, connect with foreign friend using SNS etc.. are the examples. but this connection doesn't bring advantage always. One region's economical development can cause global warming. actually we can't avoid the global dominance of the capitalist system. However, we need to try to resist temptation to economic reductionism. Because it operates on an unrealistically narrow conception of the economic and it distorts our understanding of the sphere of culture like 'Cultural imperialism', 'Americanization' or 'Westernization'. Culture seems to be a peculiarly inert category. Though to define more easily, it is generating meaning in life. There are many meaning in the simple action slimming and eating. It can be anorexia nervosa, religious fasting or political hunger strikes. Like this, culture's meaning involves all of things. Global is connecting and culture is all of things for human being. However, increasing global connectivity can't mean cultural globalization in the widest sense. Despite its reach, few would dare to claim that the effects of globalization currently extend in any profound way to every single or place. Typical example is 'Third World" in the economic field. Besides most of global things we also know are not real global these are just western things such as McDonald's, Diseny movies. In fact, this tendency is not to be appeared recently. It has been from thirteenth-century Europe. According to that time's map, Jerusalem(the holy city in Europe) was placed at the centre on the map, whilst the or Oriental Civilization was placed at the east also depicted the Garden of Eden. From these example, we have to think more about globalization. Globalization is rapidly changing our experience of locality and one way of grasping this change is in the idea of deterritorialization. Deterritorialization has fairly radical theoretical implications for traditional ways of understanding culture. Cluture has long held connotations tying it to the idea of a fixed locality. but the 'weakening' of the traditional ties between cultural experience and geographical territory will prove to be the most far-reaching effect of cultural globalization. Anyway we have benefited from deterritorialization. Now days we can choose between eating Italian, Mexican, Thai, Indian or Japanese food. And we settle down in our livingrooms to watch American soap opera or the news coverage of a distant political events. In progressing expansion of globalization, the idea 'cosmopolitan clutural politics' is desrved to be taken seriously. In this situation we can't avoid a dilemma with Universal human rights and cultural difference. So we need to find much more nimble and flexible cultural concepts than we so possess.

  2) mention of any new, interesting, or unusual items learned
I was interested in one of the example. I have never seen historical access to globalization. By using the historical example we can understand more easily about why now days' globalization shows the tendency 'Westernization'. And i think it can be more interesting because not only show positive side of globalization but also negative side.