W6. Cultural Globalization Lee Dakyeong

Cultural Globalization

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Lee Dakyeong

1. Summarize

Globalization is a multidimensional process that takes place simultaneously in the fields of economic, political, environmental change and cultural technology development. Connectivity, which means the use of communication technologies such as mobile phones, computers, e-mail, and the Internet, is increasing in our lives and connectivity affects our lives. Globalization increases connectivity.

 

We must resist the dominance of capitalism in the process of globalization. Because we do not deal with direct empirical judgments of specific practices seeking everything else. In addition, globalization, like expressions such as the impact of globalization on culture or the cultural consequences of globalization, in any way distorts our understanding of culture and culture.

 

The impact of globalization on culture is easy to understand as a global market process. This is at the core of interpreting cultural globalization as 'cultural imperialism', 'Americanization' or 'Westernization', or the spread of a single world culture of capitalism.

Culture is the root context in which human beings are born and begin as well as 'contexts in which events can be interpreted meaningfully' (Geertz, 1973). Cultural meanings and interpretations constantly motivate and direct people to particular choices and actions individually and collectively. Culture is a dimension in which globalization is created and formed simultaneously with its effects.

 

One common assumption about the globalization process is that it will lead to a single global culture. However, increasing global connectivity does not necessarily mean that the world is in a broadest sense economically or politically unified. For example, developed and developing countries are now participating in globalization, but some 'Third World' countries and Africa are not involved. In other words, it is difficult to say that African economic development and political development are part of a unified world. Therefore, the concept of globalization should be called an unequal process. Despite all these efforts, at least among Western critics, globalization continues its trend toward a 'global culture' that covers everything. Cultural globalization presupposes the assumption that cultural imperialism, that is, Western capitalism, in particular, American culture, will spread to all parts of the world. Another way to approach this problem is to look at modern globalization in the context of a much older historical situation in which society and culture have envisioned the world as a place.

 

The concept of de-territorialization has a fairly radical theoretical implication on the traditional way of understanding culture. Culture has long meant to tie it to the idea of ​​a fixed area. Culture has been an implicit assumption that it is a spatially defined reality, and, in any case, a limited integration and parallelism. However, the complex connectivity of globalization undermines such conceptions. This is because not only the local polymorphic penetration interferes with the union of meaning but also challenges the rather eerie thought of the original pairing of culture and stereotypes. If globalization is the proliferation of socio-economic connections that cross the streets from the most primitive explanation, de-territorialization implies a range of connections to the areas where everyday life is performed and experienced. (eg, when we sit in the living room watching American drama or reporting on distant political events), de-territorialization not only disturbs and transforms local experiences, but potentially gives people a broader cultural horizon.

 

The idea of ​​progressive and international cultural politics is worthy of earnest acceptance. Those who view globalization as a threat to cultural identity tend to imagine their identities as completely different. According to this view, identity is seen as a treasure that is suddenly fragile, requires protection and preservation, and can be lost. But the crucial mistake of those who view globalization as a threat to cultural identity is to confuse the cultural imagination of this modern form with the universality of human experience. The identity of a particular domain should be viewed as a structure, not a property. In other words, we can create another identity through the change of the new structure. We urgently need a more agile and flexible cultural concept than we have ever had.

2. New, interesting or unusual items I learned

I have been undergoing decontamination since I was a child. I was able to get access to food from a wide variety of countries in Korea and listen to songs from various countries. So I had never thought about culture as being a spatially limited existence. However, it was very interesting that before globalization, culture was bound to space. Of course, it is true that culture is influenced by space, but at present, we can experience other cultures although we don’t go to other countries. I once again felt that the concept of globalization is very difficult, but it is a very friendly concept.

3. Discuss point

In this article, we talked about globalization not going into a single culture, and we gave examples of the third world. I was doubtful in this part. Is not it because the third world can not participate in the flow of globalization because it does not become such an economic situation? Therefore, I would like to discuss “If African or Third World countries have ample capital, they will join the flow of globalization and form a similar culture.”