Cultural Globalization

1. Summary

  First, Globalization is a multidimensional ways about integration. In radical perspective, it should be regarding as cultural imperialism. However, globalization is a complex, accelerative progress of integration. It is usually expressed to connectedness and interdependence. Globalization is an increasing of economy, politics and society in modern world through development of technical skills. Our modern skills increase connectivity. So globalization is a progress of physical and cultural integration about global world.

  A common view of globalization is a single global culture. In old time, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels forecasted that there will be global culture in future communist society. Therefore, religious belief should be disappeared and human will lead an integrated culture which is caused from huge religion, cosmopolitans. Our real world has been experienced similar ways as a communist and internationalist, Marx and Engels said, but little bit different. We have an experience about globalization in many aspects of our life. In this, it is important to distinct between culture itself and cultural by-products.

  Also, deterritorialization is an ambiguity about distinction between culture and geographical territory. It means not just loss of local culture. It is related to experience of economy, politics, society and culture in human life. It is hard to consider as simple integration because it is relevant to problems of the necessities of our life.

  Globalization expand gradually in global scale. To date, there has been several arguments, among them, mediation between Universal Human Rights and Cultural Identity is important. We should have to make a division of Globalization and Westernization. Westernization had a characteristic concerned with imperialism in modern society. In a process of globalization, compulsion must be taken warning. Because Cultural Autonomy and Universal Human Rights both are important elements. Therefore, it is important to seek a common ground initiatively between two elements.

 

2. What was interesting / what did you learn

  When I read this article, I'm interesting about scale of globalization. It is impressive that cultural globalization is not just some visible things like music and eating goods. In fact, many aspects of our life have not came from our own tradition. We are familiar with eating Mcdonald or using I-phone. These goods contain values which related to their society. Our using is not just for convenience but sharing sense of values. And social, political, economical elements that come from those goods effect to our life directly.

  Also, as a student of sociology, opinion Marx and Engels said about single culture is very persuasive. For now, globalization don't go along what they said, it is sure that connectivity has expanded. And our subjective decision can do well in decision between locality and unification. Moreover, can our society which is sum of individual represent us well?

 

3. Discussion point

  I think about FTA(Free Trade Agreement). FTA could be consider as economic things, but it should be affect to various ways of our society. This agreement is about trade between two nations something like car, rice, and so on. Through this, we can use foreign goods cheaply but it could threat our own things. So many farmers and small retailers opposed a resistance to the FTA. Abolishing import duties make competitive power to foreign company, so they export their goods to us actively. We are more exposed to foreign goods which contain their country's value(culture). At the same time, our goods has weaken because of them. Is this phenomenon desirable?