What is the relation between culture and globalization? / Park Jaehyeon

 Summary 

Globalization, in the realm of economic, political and technological development, is a very complex concept, without causal precedence over any of the dimensions.The increasing connectivity due to globalization is an important aspect of our lives in many ways. So understanding globalization as a generalization process that increases connectivity helps us keep globalization in mind. The importance of each level and the most important of these assumptions is clear that it is the economy. Understanding what globalization is about cannot escape the global domination of the capitalist system, and the author points out such a great meaning. 

However, when looking at culture, the reasons for rebelling against the temptation to look at it as economic reductionism are as follows. First, the economy is explained in an unrealistically narrow concept. The second reason is that it distorts our understanding of the realm of culture. Reading 'culture' in point seems to be a unique obscure and deactivated category. Despite these criticisms, however, culture is essentially regarded as a component of globalization. 

To see modern globalization in a much longer historical context in which society and culture imagine the world as a place, with their own culture at the center. From Europe in the third century, it has come a long way before the current phase of globalizing modernization. It is not a traditional cultural text or a body of thought associated with a particular thinker. Much more direct.  We find a very early, pre-modern example of the theological manifestation of 'globalism'. The culture of masquerading as universal is not limited to either a religious worldview or a 'pre-modern' culture. 

Karl Marx's portrayal of the future communist society provides perhaps the most vivid imagination of world culture. Including those who believe in the bold vision of a future world where national division has disappeared, along with all other 'local' attachments. Communist society is a world with universal language, world literature and integrated international cultural tastes, Marx says. But this is exactly what we have to do if we are to avoid the violent competition of what it looks like in the way it is. It would be to create internationalism in the rather simple and literal sense of "world citizenship," a threat in the present world. The way in which no particular cultural model is forced, perhaps the most immediate cultural model.

But globalization caused by contacts between different cultures cannot be understood only as imperialist theory. While most of us live in the region, globalization is rapidly changing our experience of this 'regionality' and one way to grasp this change is by 'decision'. Deterritorialization  means the loss of the "natural" relationship of culture to 'geographical and social territory'. The concept of culture implicitly links meaning-building with specificity, location, or territory. Deterritorialization is the integration of events, processes and relationships into our daily lives. And explaining the reduction of hold in modern culture of regional speciality refers to the additional dimension of experience.

There is good reason to think that universal human rights or cultural differences, in most cases, are important. The formation of 'cultural identity' is the very solution. Cultural identity is a method of classifying, organizing and regulating cultural practices, especially as a modern entity.

Interesting Point 

I have learned that the economic impact of globalization that I read for the first time is also reflected in culture. The previous book "What is Globalization" also said that globalization should avoid being described only by economics, and in "Cultural Globalization," it was very interesting to prevent culture from being described only by economics, which made me feel that the economic impact on globalization theory was very great. And among the cultural world views claimed by scholars, Marx's communist cultural world view was impressive. It was impressive that communist society is a world with universal language, world literature and integrated international cultural tastes. And cultural identity was interesting, too. Cultural identity really seemed to be an important concept in this theory of globalization. Cultural identity is a method of classifying, organizing and regulating cultural practices, especially as a modern entity, and It can be said that choosing between universal human rights and cultural differences and how to balance them is an important issue in a world where many values are mixed. So the standard for determining these problems will be cultural identity.

Discussion

Marx argued that communist society would be a world with universal language, world literature and integrated international cultural tastes. But Marx's universalization of modernism was strangely blind to cultural differences. But as in the previous article, however, the economy has a profound impact on culture, to the extent that culture should avoid the interpretation that is returned to the economy. Marx argued that people's cultural worldviews are universally changed by the communist economic system, so I don't think all Marx's arguments are wrong.