A globalization process is unstoppable; it is necessary progress of human civilization and has an important meaning, which is largely positive. “UNESCO”, one of largest peace organization of the world, defines globalization as, “the ongoing process that linking people, cities, and countries much more closely together than they have ever been before.” One main aspect of globalization that has positively influenced today 's society is a cultural globalization. It was caused because of the barrier that existed between the Eastern and the Western parts of the world. It has positive effect on three main aspects: language, world trade and expansion of music. As the cultural globalization is actively growing, it pulls nations closer together and creates …show more content…
Today, due to cultural globalization, developing countries have a prestigious place in the global economy. Corporations, geared to this new reality, benefit from enormous economies of scale in production and distribution. From the economical point of view, it is a great pleasure for the companies to spread their products all around the world. Cultural globalization has allowed people to be able to attain goods and services that were previously not available. For example, the spread of certain cuisines, such as American fast-food chains, is a positive effect of cultural globalization. The expansion of the fast-food industry through globalization has created innumerable job opportunities to the unskilled and uneducated workers. According to the statistic made by McDonald’s, it is the world’s largest fast-food chain with more than 34,000 restaurants and 1.8 million people of employees worldwide. Because of cultural globalization, people have a variety of job opportunities. Also, it drives economies of the developing countries that can export their products that they produce and import the products that they do not. All these benefits and opportunities are a result of an active expansion of the cultural …show more content…
The globalization of pop music industry has changed people’s life. For example, a well-known band, “The Beatles”, has never had a concert in the USSR. Nobody in the country could get the vinyl disks of their albums easily before perestroika began. As soon as it began, the albums became more accessible. People started to purchase the albums, and became true fans of “The Beatles” and the Western pop music. There is a saying by the German-Jewish poet Berthold Auerbach, “Music is a universal language, and needs not be translated”. It is true, even though most of the people did not understand what the Western musicians were singing about, they still loved them. This way, the Soviet people became closer to the Western culture. In result, the cultural globalization of music had an enormous effect on uniting two competing cultures, for reference, the Soviet and Western. It gave these two cultures an opportunity to understand each other much better. It was a major reason of breaking the barrier that has existed between the Soviet and the Western
According to the reading, consumer’s musical knowledge which includes where and when they were born and raised will all influence the change of Pop Music.
McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s all have one trait in common; they have a significant impact in the United States. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is an eye-opening book that exposes the truths roaming around in the fast food industry. This novel explains the influence fast food has in the United States and even around the world. The main message Schlosser attempts to clarify throughout the book is that the fast food industry, since after World War II, has been contaminating various aspects of American life; whether it be physical health or business life, the fast food world has been a massive negative influence over time. Fast Food Nation begins with the introduction of Carl N. Karcher and the McDonalds brothers and how they were essentially the “founding fathers” of the fast food industry in southern California which became the basis for many other pioneers and companies to evolve around the United States.
I find David Caute’s text reminiscent of the one written by Hermano Vianna because they both explain how music, and culture in general, helps shaping a country’s identity; on one side by creating their own cultural object and on the other by regulating something that does not fit their ideology. The Soviet regime was wary of jazz music. Not only because it originated from the United States, but also because improvisation is one of the essential elements of jazz. Jazz was a symbol of artistic freedom and individual expression, and it was difficult to control. The regime’s central message was that Western culture was decadent.
For the Soviet Union it was a shattering blow to them as their perception of technological superiority was almost
If anything, it kept tensions high between the US and the Soviet Union and it questioned who would make the first
Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, discusses the changes that the United States has gone through in recent years due to the development of fast food restaurants. Fast food places have led to Americans desiring more efficiency in their lives as well as changed many of the traditional values that Americans used to have, such as family and the role that youth play in the workplace. This book also agrees with what we have been learning in class about the fact that our industrialized food production has aided in our moving from dependency on others and family to being a highly individualized society. The efficient mechanisms by which fast food places run have drastically changed American values, economy, and health.
Globalization is the inclusion of the differents values socio-cultural and economic local from one country to another, through their relationships exchanged a series of products and knowledge that extend and increase their ideological and economic situation. Globalization is beneficial for businesses of Colombians. As well as has influenced in areas as the social, economic, cultural, political, technological and educational in our country, globalization has ventured into the business of Colombians to favor or disfavor wholesale sales. Globalization has been a transition process started from the time of conquest and colonization, this exchange of cultural contracted a new market with mobility and trade of products and goods which over time did not stop there, but rather it was intensified and point greater flowed recognition from the
Cultural Impact of Rock and Roll Amidst the 1960’s Jimi Hendrix formerly stated, “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” A generation which was earnestly devoted to peace, protest, and revolution, the counterculture amongst the 1960’s yearned for change. Rock and roll was far beyond just a genre of music; it influenced lifestyles, protests, and attitudes, thus, kindling an awakening in the youth of American culture. The distinction between parental and youth culture was a persistent root of concern, considering that teens throughout the world found a sense of belonging in this style of music.
To begin, enjoying a meal from McDonald’s is the symbol of American culture. The fast food industry was one other major forces to shape modern life in the U.S. When asked to think of a word to describe America, majority of citizens as well as immigrants would say the “fast food”. For example,in 2001 a rebel group led by Jose Bove decided to protest the restrictions on trade set by Unites States in France and as a form of protest they destroyed a symbol of United States, a local McDonald 's, which demonstrates that McDonald 's is a representation of American culture and thus eating at this establishment is seen as an American tradition as well as the most American action a tennager can perfrm.
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.
3. Globalization Throughout the last decades, globalization became a real phenomenon, but history tells us that it is actually not a new social, historical phenomena, but has, under different names and manifestations, been with us for a long time. It is actually not only the continuation of the liberalization of international trade, which began in the mid-19th century with the launch of cross-border trade over long distances and later with intensive large-scale mobility of labor and capital. During capitalism, globalization has amplified due to the lust for profit, which is driven by capitalists across the globe. Indeed, globalization has significantly strengthened ever since.
As people have issues about Mcdonalds’ low food quality toward people’s health. However, there is another important area that we have to consider seriously about is how its system, so-called “Mcdonaldization”has influenced and continuously effecting our society. From the article “McJobs: Mcdonaldization and the Workplace” by George Ritzer, he distributes the idea of how Mcdonaldized system has changed our society into scripted and “programmized” places (Ritzer 1998:140). He has specifically analyzed the McJobs’( job that has been Mcdonaldized) into four elements,which is its efficiency, calculation, prediction and control. As the nature of the world is made of a full of colors, diverse opinions of people naturally exist toward the term
Globalization award access to benefit from the international separation of labor, technologies, international specialization, cultural exchange and the consumers like a wider variety of products with lower prices. Globalization also brings a higher level of strategizing. Business evolves in new
But some scholars also claim that “Globalization” is a new trend which technically emerged only in modern times or during the 20th century. However, the fact is that “Globalization” took place as a process of mobilization of human capital, travel, cultural exchange, free trade and modernization. Over the years the trend of globalization has seen some basic changes, which is the topic of this essay. This essay is about the difference between the trend of globalization in 20th century and 21st century. The trend of globalization in 20th century and 21st century differs in the following way:
Introduction Nowadays people can communicate easily. They can share their ideas, their cultures even with people who are not in their countries. They can trade, transporting products around the world in just a few days. This is a big economy where everything related to each other. This is globalization.