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- Globalization is a common phenomenon occurring all over this globe. Human beings are born to communicate and it can be inferred through many chronological evidences. Nowadays people easily approach to one another’s thoughts via web browsers, social network services, television programs and more. Throughout all the increasing communications, the world is more globalizing ever. We can apply this term in economics, politics and also cultures. Globalization is also fueled by transportations and in before days there were negative aspects of it such as the “black plague”. Fore-time, the remarkable development in transportation carried not only products but also viruses, and the “black plague” is passed down through generations as a representative sample of the dark side of the globalization. There are many theories of globalization such as modernization theory, dependency theory and more. By translating one of the theories on Wikipedia, I plan to learn those. Cultural globalization brings us to think about symbols. On class we talked about the symbols and what does symbols stand for. For example, the superheroes are the hottest symbol of Hollywood these days and in my own perspective, the superheroes stand for the USA. To explain my standpoint, there are several elements which the superhero movies have. First, almost every superheroes speak English and live in the western. Next, they always fight for the USA and, by extension, in some movies they organized by the government of USA. These factors plant the millions of cinema audiences that the USA is both the world-police and the absolute good.
- In my latest point of view, the term “globalization” is made newly with the enormous growth in network system. However, this thought was totally incorrect because there was the globalization in the era of Mongol Empire. Moreover, even if we turn the history clock to counterclockwise, there might have been “globalization” in any possible ways.
- What would be the consequence of an excessive importation of other countries’ culture? Such as, the Korean singers’ unstoppable success in Japan is a considerable issue but the opposite side is not happening at all.
Yes, it is interesting to consider element of globalization have a very long history.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, it's also a good question why some cultures are having more success exporting their produces than others. Let's discuss this in our next class!
I believe that each country has their own specialty, and our case worked as a culture in different countries for example. So I think what we need to think is how we develop that points equally and peacefully in the globalized world.
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