Cultural Globalization

 The most important of cultural globalization is the development of communication media, especially so-called electronic media, such as television and the Internet. Through the media, a large amount of real-time information is available all over the world.

Multinational corporations in the West (especially the United States) are powerful, coupled with their monopoly advantage in transnational communication media, so cultural globalization is often the spread of Western culture around the world. The so-called "McDonaldization" and "cultural imperialism" that we often hear basically refer to the cultural globalization in which the West (or the United States) unilaterally spreads its ideological standards and behavior patterns to all parts of the world.

The absorption and resistance of local culture

In fact, local culture has never passively received Western culture. American football is the most popular sport in the United States, and it is not necessarily popular in other parts of the world. In the process of cultural globalization, on the one hand, local culture will actively absorb and melt Western culture; on the other hand, it will actively resist and counter Western culture.

On the integrated side, such as China and Japan, when receiving Western products or information, they tend to digest them, give these new things a new local cultural meaning, and make them a part of local culture; Characteristic, reverse transmission to the West, among which Japanese sushi and Indian curry are obvious examples.

On the side of resistance and conflict, such as the Muslim culture in the Middle East, while Western culture spreads to various countries, it adopts an attitude of rejection. The extreme anti-Western views of "fundamentalism" have formed cultural conflicts, which have even evolved into force. The crisis of conflict, the "911 incident" is an example.