1. Summary of the article
To understand the meaning of "cultural
globalization," one can understand the two terms accurately. First
of all, Globalization is a multidimensional process, going simultaneously
within the spheres of the economy, of politics, of technological developments,
of environmental change and of culture. In other words, It means the flow of global
era in each field-people, fashions, beliefs, images and so on. The most people
understand globalization as a generalized process of increasing connectedness.
The expansion of creation and social
relationships is not only observed at the material level. Cultural
globalization involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge that connect
people to their individual and group cultural identities.
And, the meaning of the ‘culture’ often distorts.
So we have to think what is the culture. Clifford Geertz (1973: 14) says ‘Culture
is not a power, something to which social events can be causally attributed’.
It is the primordial context in which human agency arises and takes place.
It is that culture is a dimension in which
globalization both has its effects and simultaneously is generated and shaped.
One useful way to think about the consequentiality of culture for globalization
is to grasp how culturally informed ‘local’ actions can have globalizing
consequences.
Despite the historical tendency for cultures and
nations to claim universality as their possession, the appeal to the universal
can perhaps be made to work in a cosmopolitan world order as a construct: as
one way, amongst others, of understanding our human condition and of relating
in dialogue with others.
2. mention of any new, interesting, or unusual items learned
3. identify at least one question, concern, or discussion angle
Is it the part of cultural globalization that we
drink Starbucks Coffee, eat hamburgers at McDonalds, and wear Guess shirts?
What is the mental impact of cultural globalization on us?
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