Blog 2 Assignment / Cultural Globalization / Angela Wibowo

Sociology of Globalization BLOG 2 ASSIGNMENT

CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

The relationship between globalization and culture.

Now we will relate the globalization and the culture. As we know that globalization is a multidimentional process, and the aspects are economy, politics, technological development, media and communication, environmental change and the culture. In globalization, we understand about the relationship between one country to another country, and it is interesting that other countries can affect each other, such as the fashion, technology, and they can do export and import product to each pther and give benefits to each other, and they built the connectivity between countries that can affect the peoples in every country. The most popular is Korean culture that is happening these days, especially in Indonesia, Korean culture is rising up in Indonesia, especially in our capital city, Jakarta. This is the example of how globalization can influence each other countries. And if we relate it with culture, culture is the impact of the globalization, or we can called cultural consequences. The interpretation of this can called a “cultural imperialism”, “Americanization”, or “westernization”, an the others. Culture can constantly motivate other people toward people’s decisions, choices and actions. According to article, Anthony Giddens said that cultural globalization increasing reflexivity of modern life.

A global culture?

There is some speculation about the connectivity of countries by globalization that now we can see more about the unifying effect of world because of the connectivity and globalization. The effect of the globalization can be affect every single persen or place on the worls, and it can affect the society political, cultural division around us. Cultural globalization indeed called cultural imperialism, and there are the domination of world culture through iconic brands like Disney, cocacola, Marlboro, Microsoft, Google, McDonalds, CNN, Starbucks, and the others. Popular music can be spread to the entire world, and dominate, especially for the genre of the music that is popular in the world. That is like an example how some brands or some things can be used and consumpted by all over the world, and maybe for some products, we’ll satisfied by the productions, and we can find the new one for satisfaction of people’s.

Deterritorialization

Globalization is rapidly move and changing the experience of locality and the way to grasping is “deterritorialization”. According to the article, Nestor Gracia Canclini said that Deterritorialization implies the loss of the natural relation of culture to geographical location of a culture, not just the physical, environmental and climatic location, but self-definitions, ethnic boundaries and delimiting practices that have accrued around this.  Deterritorialization means the significance of the geographical location of the culture. It refers to reach connectivity into the localities in everyday life that is conducted and experienced. This is not just simply loss the experience of local culture, deterritorialization refers to the integration of distant events, processes and relationship to everyday live. Deterritorializing aspect of globalization felt in everyday life like when we choose between eating Japanese, Mexican, or Indonesian food, or watch Opera or political event. These activities reach deep into our individual cultural “worlds”, horizon od cultural and moral relevance, or our sense of cultural and national identity.

Cosmopolitanism and cultural identity

Identity means to differentiate, so in cultural identity we’re talking about differentiating the culture and socially regulating of modern life. We can differentiate it from gender, class, sexuality, religion, race and ethnic, and nationality and these are already existed before modernity, but the way they’re known, publicate, named, and regulated, it is relevant with the modernity. Globalization distributes the institutional features of modernity across all cultures, it generates the institutionalized forms of cultural belonging.

The crucial mistake about globalization is to confuse western-modern form of cultural imagination with universal human experience. But from history, the historical culture had already constructed the identity.

What I learn/ interesting topic:

I’ve learn something that globalization is related with culture, and I just know that globalization has the effect, and that is culture, and world becoming culturalization, and the culture can become one in the world. I like this topic about globalization and culture, and how globalization’s effect will be the culture of world, and now I know the process of how globalization can affect and influence other countries. Now, I know that world can have their own culture, and become one culture that will be used by every one, every person in this world, and that is our daily life and it is around us and we always do that kind of culture in our daily life, and now I realize that is globalization and how they processed in our life.

Discussion :

Is there another example about cosmopolitanism and cultural identity that is real in our daily life these days? And another example about deterritorialization? And Is there another possibility that from globalization will give disadvantages to each other country? Because in Indonesia we got so many disadvantage like now we’re kinda love another country than our own country, is that possible? Or just our country?