The relationship between culture and globalization.

1) John Tomlinson was talking about both globalization and culture, and also its relationship. He mentioned that culture is a dimension in which globalization both has its effects and simultaneously is generated and shaped. Moreover, he introduced a speculation that the globalization will lead us to a unified global culture. Through explaining this he came out with many sociologists' concepts.

2) Almost every concept introduced by this essay was fresh to me. Actually, the term 'cosmopolitanism' was familiar to me because of the fashion brand name, but the real meaning of that was a pretty new for myself.


3) In the latest class, we talked about 'remix'. It is made of copy, transform, and combine. Remix is a very well-known term in the music industry but the exact identification of the term was not popular among us. There is another term that has a closest meaning to 'remix', and that is 'remake'. Musicians use both words as a synonym. 
 Since television audition programs got popular in Korea, some odd habits were occurred throughout the public. When a new music appears, people evaluate it as if they are a judge and it led to a funny phenomenon that almost every new released songs were accused to a plagiarism. However, this hot debates on online were somewhat useless fights because almost 9 out of 10 doubts were invalid assertions. Many trials were held and charges overissued in music industries. One of the well-known cases was the trial between a singer JYP and a composer Sin-il Kim. Kim sued JYP for a plagiarism of his song, however, the funniest thing is that both of their songs' chord work is similar to the song 'Officially missing you'. This is the representative case of how people can act when they cannot understand 'remix'. There is an English proverb saying that remix is an irresistible phenomenon: There is nothing new under the sun. While looking at the words, a sudden thought came up to me. Is there really a single thing cannot be 'created'? If yes, what can be defined as 'creation'? Is 'creating' is only for the God?


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