Globalization And Cultural Homogenization

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The majority of individuals, including my colleagues, will argue that globalization is beneficial with only minor problems or consequences. I will agree that globalization has made it easier than ever to travel between nations, created caused economies to flourish, and even created cultural consciousness. However, I see this as heuristic, clouding individual’s conclusions, and the implications of globalization are actually more negative than positive. Economic development of major nations have completely disrupted cultures worldwide and creating an international tension. Globalization does not promote cultural conflict, it merely allows the more powerful ones to take over. The cultural conflict has already happened, individuation has lost, and those who still wish to preserve tradition are given negative labels.
Colleagues will state that the world is more connected than ever. I argue that they have already become westernized and, since they are part of the oppressive entity (western culture), they don’t see it. What they fail to see is a cultural homogenization and those who decide to retain what makes them different suffer in many aspects. Looking at the African country of Zimbabwe, it is clear what happens to a country that attempts to fight this homogenization. The nation took a bold move by establishing foreign investment controls, increase black Zimbabwean ownership of the country’s natural resources/enterprises, and rejecting pro-foreign investment (Gowns 2008 Global

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