What is the relation between culture and globalization? / sangmin choe

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Globalization is the process of accelerating and integrating global connectivity. Globalization takes place in all areas of modern life: capital, goods, people, knowledge, information and thoughts, crime. The aspect of globalization can be felt in everyday life by everyone, including developing countries. Connectivity is also characteristic of how we eat, wear and make money, including our communication skills (phone, computer, etc.). It also relates to the global epidemic of the climate crisis that we all face. We are connected to the world in every way, and this is an unprecedented situation.

Although most of the discussions are held at an economic dimension, we should also be held at a cultural dimension. If globalization is handled only on an economic dimension, it not only makes sense to an extremely narrow extent, but also distorts our understanding of culture.

Some speculate that globalization will lead to a single global culture. This is because Western products such as Nike, McDonald's, and Starbucks dominate the market in the world. But the fact that we consume products does not mean that we are assimilated into that culture. There is a difference between simply consuming goods and melting into culture.

Historically, many people and scholars have imagined future globalization. Evstorf Mappa, theologian, Kantw and Marx. But the cultural globalization they imagined is ethnocentric and lacks predictions about cultural development.

Globalization leads to Deterritorialization. It also changes the meaning of locality. Culture in the past has been greatly influenced by the territory it lives on, but with the flow of globalization, regional limitations do not have much influence on culture. Deterritorialization does not mean that regional specificity, nuance differences disappear completely. Rather, locality thrives in globalization. Deterritorialization means experiencing events and relationships in the world in our daily lives. In this situation, a global culture, the idea of a progressive, cosmopolitan cultural polities should be taken more seriously. Healthy identity and attitude are needed for the purpose of harmony and communication.

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The concept of 'Deterritorialization' was interesting. In fact, locality has played an absolute role in experiencing culture. Geographical conditions, such as where you live and where you were born, were a big factor determining what culture you experienced. 

Geographical conditions, of course, have an important impact now that globalization is progressing and connectivity is increasing, but they are not as absolute as they used to be. I am in Korea. Search images on Pinterest and watch dramas and content from various countries on Netflix. 

Even in my daily life. I was able to find the tendency of Deterritorialization. When I combine what I learned in class with my daily life. I think I can feel it better. Because I am also a person who is experiencing a global flow.

It was also interesting to distinguish between consuming products and assimilating them into west culture. In fact, I also don't melt into west culture even though I am using Western products. 

For example, I watch American dramas on Netflix, but I still can't get used to going to bed with shoes on.  I always think that oh..he/she have to take his/her shoes off. Like this, I can find examples in my daily life. This class is good because it is closely related to my life.

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Is the traditional meaning of ethnicity no longer meaningful? Ethnicity  traditional meaning is a social group historically formed based on language and cultural commonalities over many years of communal life in certain areas. It is not necessarily in line with the people of race or state. 

In Deterritorialization situation how we should define Ethnicity?