R2) What is the relation between culture and globalization? / Juhee Kim


Summary

The author defined globalization in this way. Globalization is just an explanation of the flow across the periphery and international boundaries of virtually everything, including capital, goods, people, knowledge, information, ideas, crime, pollution, disease, fashion, faith and image. The connection of being around everything, a characteristic of globalization, has deeply entered our lives. This connectivity is more easily recognizable if we live in a globalized AREA.


Connectivity can be a form of communication technology, such as mobile phones, computers, e-mail, the Internet, or a characteristic of the urban environment in which we live, such as the way we make a living, the style of food we eat, music, movies, television, mobility, and travel experience. Therefore, understanding globalization as a process of increasing connectivity is something that can understand the complexity of globalization.


From this point of view, the biggest impact of globalization on culture is the world market. This is because it is relatively easy to understand that the distribution of symbolic consumer goods has a potential impact on people's cultural experience. Some interpret cultural globalization as "cultural imperialism," "Americanization" or "western Europeanization," or as the spread of global capitalism-consumer unification.


The answer to the question 'What is culture for?' is to create meaning in life, being practical. We will experience globalization in terms of culture and globalization has played the most important role in creating and spreading cultural identity. 


Interesting Point

What was interesting was the relationship between globalization and global integration. Here, the author asks, "Will the world be consolidated just because globalization is deepening? and replied, 'because connectivity increases doesn't mean that the world is being integrated in the broadest sense of economics and politics." I also think that if globalization deepens, the world will converge into ONE nation, but the whole world will not become a single CULTURE country. However, cultural globalization implies cultural imperialism. For example, Western capitalist culture, including the United States, is spreading to various parts of the world and pushing local culture away. Global companies like Disney, Coca-Cola, Google and McDonald's are still relentless and dominating the world. The author said that these global companies should be regarded as cultural assets and not be confused with culture itself. However, we still need to stay alert for globalization which ignores the influence of Western culture.


Discussion

Is preventing global companies from monopolizing the market a violation of the free market economy? If it should be regulated, what Idea should each country come up with?


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