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Globalization can be partly responsible for the current global economic crisis. Case studies of Thailand and the Arab nations' view of globalization show that globalization is a threat to culture and religion, and it harms indigenous people groups while multinational corporations profit from it.
Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. [1] This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet , popular culture media, and international travel .
Diversity was a good in itself, so making Britain truly diverse would enrich it and bring 'significant cultural contributions', reflecting a widespread belief among the ruling classes that multiculturalism and cultural, racial and religious diversity were morally positive things whatever the consequences.
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, [1] is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement , [ 2 ] alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, [ 3 ] or movement against neoliberal ...
The concept of global cultural flows was introduced by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai in his essay "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy" (1990), in which he argues that people ought to reconsider the Binary oppositions that were imposed through colonialism, such as those of ‘global’ vs. ‘local’, south vs. north, and metropolitan vs. non-metropolitan.
Cross-cultural communication is a field of study investigating how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures. Intercultural communication is a related field of study. [1] Cross-cultural deals with the comparison of different cultures.
This is our final article in a series of three, where we argued that deglobalization was a simplistic and inaccurate way to describe the current trajectory of trade and investment, and we looked ...
Globalization brought face to face two very confident and incompatible ideas and the battle for dominance has been transformed into what is known as terrorism or "the dark side of globalization". Rather than reflecting a specific ideology , terrorism represents nostalgia (for pre-modern civilisation) and has been the result of a clash between ...