What is Globalization?

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon. It’s many becoming one. It impacts cultural, information, technological, diversity and business-related. The world becomes more international. People have more and more understanding across countries. “The rise of new communications technology, compressing time and space and transcending national frontiers, is bringing into being a “global village”. – Beyond globalization theory Page7 by James Curran and Myung-Jin Park. Globalization makes people act and think similar. It’s like a small village; it’s a big family.

Some people think globalization is dangerous. They think globalization is somehow equal to westernization <Americanization>, but it’s not necessary. Cultures impact each others; no single one culture can be strong enough to impact all other countries, but there are some leading cultures to lead other cultures. “Globalization today is only party westernization. Globalization is becoming increasingly decentered-not under the control of any group of nations, still less of the large corporation. Its effects are felt as much in Western countries as elsewhere.” by Anthony Giddens(1999:31) – Beyond globalization theory Page 7. But globalization have some dangerous, it kind of create an unbroken information wall between countries. It causes digital divide, information gap, poverty <economic poverty> between rich <western>countries and poor <the third word> countries.

Globalization also helps mix with difference.  Mixtures of ethnic cultures, religions and race diversity in many nations, globalization is the machine behind them. In the Beyond globalization theory Page 7, the author wrote:  “Globalization is promoting ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity within nation-states.”(Robins et al. 1997)

Sometimes, culture doesn’t really mix between cultures when globalization occurred. People have to try to understand or mix with each other in order to connect with others. Often, it included some degree of cultural sacrifices. People keep part of their cultures value and adopt some other cultures, eventually make their own new international cultures.  “Globalization also selects elements of neatly partitioned national culture, and remixes them in new way for an international public.” (Robins 1995:250) – Beyond globalization theory 8

Work Cited:

Edited by Curran, James/Park, Myung-Jin. (2000). London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
De- Westernizing Media Studies.

Norris, Pippa. Editorial: Information Poverty and the Wired World. Harvard College/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.