“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.” ~ Nelson Mandela. The definition google gives for globalization is: businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. My position will address the following questions: to what extent should globalization shape identity? What is identity? What impact does globalization have on identity? Should we try to minimize globalization’s impact on identity, embrace it, or a mixture of both? Globalization can necessarily be a great part of the world if we use it to its highest potential. It could also be detrimental to the community we stand for, furthermore, worldwide. We live in a world where we are driven by time, are we going let it control us is the question.
What is identity, and to what extent should globalization shape it? Identity could be described as how we see the world and how we interact with it. Earlier in life when we were younger, our possessions, and our activities, were our frequent liveliness, despite the advances in technology. These days, the things we did when we were children, has come to be made marginalized. For example, in the past when cell phones were not as prominent in several countries, youngsters used to play outside and use their imagination to
What is an “American Identity”? Some say it’s how we react to the world around us, but what has changed since maybe fifty years ago? How do people act now compared to how we may have before, and how have we most significantly changed? Most of the recent tragedies that have occurred, many young people, or the new generation of our country, were yet too young to have experienced them. Yes, we have read about it in our textbooks, and it may have been only a few years ago, but
America has been established as a country by immigrants, been industrialized by immigrants, and basically has been made by immigrants. These immigrants haven’t just come from England, these immigrants came from all parts of the world like Russia, Mexico, Italy, Ghana, and so on. With all the immigrants coming, cultures, beliefs, clothing, and languages come also. With all these influences and ideas going into the melting pot, there cannot be one particular way in which one looks from America. This is because the American identity is not something shown on the face; rather the American identity is made of diversity, with cultures that contribute to the making of the American Identity.
Identity speaks of who we are as individuals but it also comes from two different groups: social and cultural. These groups are connected to power, values and ideology. Social identities are related to how we interact with people and how we present ourselves. Meanwhile cultural identities relate to society in whole such as religion, values, etc. In this paper I will talk about the dominant and subordinate identities.
Thomas, Deborah and MKC. 2013. Globalization and Race, in Annual Reviews I- Introduction Main point: In the past two decades, anthropologists have put much of their focus on globalization.
Cultural globalization is often understood as the spatial diffusion of global products. At a deeper level, cultural globalization may be seen as the contested process of internationalization of values, attitudes and beliefs. The spread of cultural practices and symbols makes the world more the same, but at the same time triggers resistance. Hence, cultural globalization while uniting the world is also seen to strengthen local cultures and is a major force behind the creation of identities. Such homogenization or differentiation can be noticed in the change of cultural practices and consumption patterns over time and space.
In Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, an unimaginable dystopia has been created. The World State was formed on three principles: community, identity, and stability. These three principles dictate how members of this society live and interact with one another. In modern society, there is an emphasis on the importance of motherhood, commitment, and countless other ideals that are rejected in the World State. Throughout the novel, the principle of community is shown with castes and hypnopaedic slogans, such as everybody belongs to everybody else.
The two main texts to consider here are : Zygmunt Bauman’s “Identity in the globalizing world” and Stuart Hall’s “The question of cultural identity”. Both the authors deal with the identity discourse that has taken place with the advent of modernity or what can be thought of as how identity evolved in the modern times. Zygmunt Bauman’s article revolves around the thought that “we have moved from a
When it comes to comparing the past with the present, the idea of globalisation is deliberated quite often. The twentieth century coined the term ‘globalisation’ as international organisations were introduced, aiming to reduce trade barriers and maintaining healthy global trade relations. On the other hand, the twenty-first century induced a fear of globalisation as companies were outsourcing their production allowing certain societies to continue development while others remained constant. In June 2016, Brexit (Britain’s exit) took place because the majority of the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). This event exhibits people disrupting the political mandate by voting against cultural and economic globalization.
GLOBALIZATION, TECHNOLOGY AND LAW Globalization and Technology Globalization has completely transformed the way in which the world and its people interact. Earlier there were several roadblocks in the ability to communicate and interact with the people worldwide. But now, the world is becoming more and more globalized in all spheres: Business, financial, social, economical, etc. Over the years, a lot of technological advancements have come into picture including the changes in the field of Information Technology, having a significant impact on the global landscape.
Globalization and Nation States Globalization has integrated and intertwined the economies of the world. In the world today, every nation has become independent on every other nation, be it through trade or through finance. Developing countries today are attracting large rounds of foreign investment, and this foreign investment is coming from the developed countries. Thus, the money of the developed countries is today invested in the developing countries.
As established in the previous paper, globalization has a major impact on the individuals and society as a whole. It reshapes social structures and significantly alters the social experiences of the people. Social phenomena such as intersocietal as well as intrasocietal inequality and conflict are associated with the increased connectivity of the world. Such social realities spark the interest of sociologists across the globe, as they study the relationship between individuals and societies. To facilitate their endeavors, sociologists utilize sociological theories that study society on the micro- and macro level.
The exceptionally notoriety of the word 'globalization’ signals a require for caution. The word was barely utilized some time recently the late 1980s, indeed in scholarly circles, but nowadays you can barely open a daily paper without experiencing the term. It might effortlessly show up to is an elegant name utilized to assign wonders around which one has as it were the vaguest thoughts. However to dispose of the concept of globalization, and the huge consideration agreed the marvels it envelops, on such grounds, would be silly. There is a genuine require for a common, non-specific term to portray the complex, multi sided ways in which the world is inter-connected, and progressively so.
It is for this reason that Pinney, suggested that, identity build up is the most fundamental objective of a person 's adolescence, and "those who fail to achieve a secure identity are faced with identity confusion, a lack of clarity about who they are and what their role is in life” (Pinney, 1993). This brings out the fact that identity builds up and understanding is an inevitable and unexplainable. An understanding of identity an important aspect of crosses cultural communication, because it will help provide a guideline for communication interaction with others who have different cultural identity (Samorava , Porter, & McDaniel, 2009, p.
Globalization is the method by which business, corporations, individuals start to operate on an international scale. Globalization has empowered monetary advancement, social and political impact. Though globalization is advantageous to the individuals who have worldwide systems while others are barred. The counter globalization development surveys the importance of globalization.
It does not mean that society nowadays lost identity and sense of national belonging because cultural identities aren’t static, they are dynamic and constructed situationally in particular place and time (Shultz & Lavenda). Democritus of Abdera wrote, “To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.” Thus people have relentless desire to travel, discover world cultures and to coexistence with world citizens. That is what make them cosmopolitans. Due to (Beck & Cronin, 2004) the human condition has itself become cosmopolitan, no borders exist anymore in any part of our life: travelling, communication, terror.