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Fatma Younis
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Are you for or against a global culture?
September 28, 2009 - 06:53 PM
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Globalization is the system in which the same products are sold throughout the world by huge multinational companies. Supporters of globalization say that people prefer something from the other side of the world to something local. Globalization is seen as threat by increasing numbers of people. They worry about the effect globalization will have on the culture of individual countries, cities and towns. Some people might see the global culture as a good thing as it brings people together. The question is , will the world become less interesting when all the people wear the same clothes , eat the same food and speak the same language?....Are you for or against a global culture? And why?...
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
September 29, 2009 - 11:22 PM
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i favor the global culture but the duplication makes it down n down, rather than the original product; when it comes to local level duplicate will hit the people. This is the main problem what we are facing in this today's world .
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
January 4, 2010 - 08:24 PM
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I think that a global culture would be detrimental to society as we know it; however, the semblance of such a thing is forming. Through new technology, most importantly the internet, it is harder to keep cultures from bleeding into one another. Though I think it's good that other cultures are beginning to learn about each other, I think there is something wonderful about the idiosyncrasies of each country world-wide. For example, other languages are adopting english words as their own. To me, the best part of learning a new language is learning the odd euphemisms and their roots. This subtlety, and other nuances of any culture, are slowly but surely falling by the wayside.
However, I do not see globalization and a global culture as the same thing. I do not think globalization is inherently bad or corrupting, though it is easy for it to move into that realm. For example, I think the thirst for education that is spreading through the east is a positive development. It is once one country decides their way is the only way that globalization starts to get ugly. I think, as long as globalization is an option, not a forced thing, all the world's cultures will not blend into one.
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
January 4, 2010 - 09:46 PM
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I think global culture would only contribute to conflict between people. For instance, how would one create this global culture? Who would decide what kind of food became the "normal" food, etc? That would only lead to more conflict and resentment.
A lot of the conflicts in the world today are because of certain cultures forcing their own beliefs on others, like religious conflicts. Continuing that on a global scale would probably make a lot of people angry. Many people in foreign countries resent the presence American culture has come to have in their lives. I'm sure that if we tried to create a global culture, Western cultural imperialism would make itself known in some way or another, and the East/West culture would prove near impossible to resolve.
Instead of trying to combine cultures into a global one, we should focus on trying to make peace between the cultures and promoting willing, productive exchange. Forcing people to come together will only make them resent each other more - it has to be voluntary.
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
January 7, 2010 - 01:29 PM
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Globalisation by the giant multi-nationals is the gradual erosion of a countrys' culture by the back door. Like CocaCola, Pepsi, McDonalds, Pizza Hut etcetera slithering onto the high streets of evry major town in the world, forcing out the small local suppliers who are not seen as 'cool'. The idiots think that by eating and drinking this muck, they will be magically transported to America or make women think they are as good looking as the latest Hollywood heart throb. Instead they are eating their way to their first heart attack.
To consciously go for some kind of global culture is a crazy notion that denies all the richness and quirkiness that keeps this planet interesting.
Already the internet has forced English onto a world and its fingers are ever widening.
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
January 9, 2010 - 01:53 AM
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For now, I enjoy the differences, and having to talk to people from other country knowing that they have their own unique experiences to share. It allows for exploration, so life isn't as bland as what it could of been.
Though I admit, I would enjoy a universal language. Partly because then I could read books from other cultures at ease. Though that could lead to a loss of meaning within the text.
So, I'd say, keep the differences, it's fine the way it is.
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Re: Are you for or against a global culture?
January 12, 2010 - 07:10 PM
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An interesting question to which i must say I am undecided; it all depends on how the term is defined. The term "global culture" often invokes the idea of sameness across the globe, but couldn't "global culture" also be seen as diversity across the globe?
If global culture means a utopia of identical life styles across the planet, there are certainly some benefits, such as mutual understanding world wide, a lack of complexity in international relations (perhaps even a complete turn away from nation-states). However, besides the fact that this form of global culture is impossible to achieve without resistance from those whose original culture is not the global one, and from a continuance of the ever developing war between east and west over the "better" culture, uniformity would also mean a great loss for the world. There is nothing wrong with a difference of opinions; it is the only way we move forward, and our individuality is the only way that we can define our place within the world. Therefore, I must say I could not be a proponent for such a global culture.
If, on the other hand, we define global culture as a mesh of all cultures everywhere, the ability for anyone walking down the streets to find a bit of their own culture, as is increasingly the case in cities like New York, London, even Hong Kong, I find more advantages to this idea. When all cultures converge, everyone is welcome to take the best parts of each, and everyone can remain individual in their assembly of these parts. Language can be maintained from every corner of the world, and while no two places will have the same culture, cultural understanding will be advanced through exposure and perhaps some of the deep rooted historical barriers between certain cultures, such as the big debate between east and west, will come down. On the other hand, such a mesh of cultures may become confusing, and if the nation state no longer stands as a definer of culture, there may be people who turn, as is increasingly the case in the middle east, to extremist religion and non-peaceful organizations for a sense of belonging, especially for those who feel their culture is being taken over by everyone else's and not spread around enough.
Therefore, I conclude that a move towards cultural understanding and sharing of cultures important, but perhaps not to the extreme of anything that could be defined as a "global culture." Perhaps if along the way some of the long historical battles can be settled and exchanged for peaceful understanding, a global environment of mixed cultural influence across the bored could be eventually established and the nation-state left as a token of past conflict, but for now I think that a compromise between the separation of today's culture and the ideal of a global culture must be reached first so as to establish peace and allow us to further our society to the point of mutual understanding.
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