Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Cultural Globalization

1) Summarize in your own words of materials you read
 
In the relationship between globalization and culture, To understand the meaning and character of ‘cultural globalization’, we first should understand defining features of the two constituent terms.
One simple way of defining globalization is to say that it is a complex, accelerating, integrating process of global connectivity.
This increasing Connectivity pretty much defines our use of communications technologies. -mobile phones, computers, e-mail, the Internet.
 
First, because we are not handling with straightforward empirical judgments about what specific practices drive everything else, but also with questions of the constitution of analytical categories: to what extent are economic practices also, intrinsically, cultural ones?
The second reason is that it perverts our understanding of the sphere of culture.
To clarify this, we have to probe a little more into the complicated and often elusive concept of culture.
This say " What I have emphasized here is that culture is a dimension in which globalization both has its effects and simultaneously is generated and shaped.“
 
However, increasing global connectivity necessarily implies that the world is becoming, either economically or politically ‘unified’. What is feared here is the total domination of world cultures through the unopposed advance of iconic brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Marlboro, Microsoft, Google, McDonald’s, CNN, Nike and Starbucks.
 
But Marx combines this vision with deeply Eurocentric attitude. He welcomes the way in which the bourgeois era is sweeping away premodern ‘civilizations’, preparing the way for the coming socialist revolution and the communist era.
 
The vast majority of our local lives, but globalization is rapidly changing our experience of this ‘locality’ and one way of grasping this change is in the idea of ‘deterritorialization’.

 
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.
 
3) Identify at least one question, concern, or discussion angle
 
Increasing global, the most common way is that cultural globalization implies a form of cultural imperialism especially American culture. What we need to worry about is the entire domination of world cultures through representative brands such as Nike, McDonald so on. Dissemination of dominant culture can threaten the local and minor culture in certain countries. Similar things occur in real life of Korea. Hong-dae, Sang-su dong are famous spot now days. They have their own specific and distinguishable atmosphere. So many people go there to have dinner or coffee. And also, quiet and cost of rent was so cheap so many artist and small studios were there. But those places became popular, cost of rent is much more higher than before. So, many artist and people who already have their own shop in there got thretened from big companies to get out of there.  

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