Effects of globalization on culture

Effects of globalization on culture

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Introduction

Globalization is the global alliance in matters of the trade, economy as well as the culture, in the literal sense; globalization is the transformation of a regional phenomenon into a global ones. It can also be described as the process in which people around the world get unified to form a one society that functions together. Globalization heavily banks upon worldwide by its expansions and integration. Due to advancement in the field of technology, today, the world at large has shrunk into a village, given that globalization has swept all the boundaries in politics. Globalization in general is the combination of technological, economic, socio-cultural and the political forces. This paper hence analyzes the effects of globalization while comparing the cultural differences in the Middle East, the Europe and America as well as analyzing a SWOT analysis on how to develop the country market entry strategy.

Globalization has got different definition, according to Palmer, (2003), he defines globalization as “the diminution or elimination of state-enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders and the increasingly integrated and complex global system of production and exchange that has emerged as a result.”

Impacts of globalization on culture

Globalization has brought the borrowing of culture among the different states. This can be an advantage and it can also serve as a disadvantage. It is an advantage in that it makes people from other states to learn about the cultures of different people from other states thus enhancing the bond between the different states and they also learn to appreciate as well as, respect other cultures. It is a disadvantage in that other people may adopt other culture fully at the expense of their own. This may lead to the fading away of a particular culture since the people of that particular region have embraced a different culture and have shunned their original culture. This situation must be avoided at all costs so that people cannot forget their original roots(Rugman, 2003).

Globalization on the other hand, seems to be responsible for ever-rising gaps existing between impoverished majority and affluent few. The feeling of resentment fails to predict well for the society. In this case, globalization tends to make big multinationals plus corporations to be powerful enough so that it interferes with policy making of the country. The interest of people tends to get jeopardized since they are willing to call shots. Globalization has as well contributed to ecological risks with a rise in global inequalities (Rugman, 2003).

Globalization has impacted both positively and negatively all around the globe. The Middle East states have portray a varied attitude towards different forms of globalization, for instance, the Islamic of the Middle East unlike the Latin America or the East Asia, are not in support of globalization. They have the perception that the introduction of globalization will put their culture in harm. They view globalization as a threat to their culture. According to an East Scholar, Rubin, unless the Islamic of the Middle East find something to write home to in the whole globalization issue, the continued rebellion will not cease (Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Vivarelli, & Voigt, 2011).

For any state to grow economically, they have to be ready to embrace the introduction of the new innovations which come as a result of globalization. They must be able to adjust to the changes that come with globalization. Some of the Middle East states should loosen up to the idea of globalization and use is to their advantage in order to have an economically stable country. The rift between the west and the Islamic is due to lack of proper communication. The Muslims are not in support of the globalization since they find it to be more westernized, so they are finding their own way of globalizing themselves. For instance, they allow the use of internet among their followers to connect together to those people who share the same understanding of Islamic.

Many states of the Middle East are fiercely against the incorporation of globalization in their culture. They are adamant to some aspects of globalization so they cannot put up with some practices that come along with it. They strongly cling to their culture and they cannot change it to go with the trend of the modern world, so they opt to remain conservative.

The government of the Middle East is not ready to adopt the introduction of globalization in their culture. The anti- globalization is rampant in the better part of the region. It has also resulted to feuds in the region. There is an enormous fear of embracing globalization. Its vivid that the better part if Middle East is not in support of the changing trends, globalization has proven to of benefit, for example, the Gulf State shich has chosen to take a different path and they have chosen to embrace globalization and as a result they improved their state economically. They chose positive side of globalization and used it to their advantage. They associate themselves with the west which has been of a great significance to their economy (Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Vivarelli, & Voigt, 2011).

For America and Europe, the case is quite the contrary from the Middle East. They are more approving to the idea of globalization since its much more of the western culture which they are used to. Globalization is seen to be similar to westernization or rather modernization which in fact poses an immense threat to the traditional culture which America as compared to the Middle East and Europe can be seen as the one in great support of the idea of globalization, and therefore wanting to force it to the other states. People tend to think that it had no impact at all to the Americans, but that is not the case. They too had a share of the impact that globalization brought along with it (Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Vivarelli, & Voigt, 2011).

Globalization has helped to improve the civic society in America by integrating the citizens. This is so, since it builds unity and the need to work in togetherness hence yielding high quality outcomes. It also establishes peace among the states and there is an interaction among the people of the different states therefore creating links between them. That is positive in that resources will be shared and trade enhanced between the states raising the economy of America.

The Americans have no dispute over the influence of another culture on them. A greater percentage attributed the diversity of culture to their success according to ‘a Pew poll 2000. So this shows that when a state takes globalization and use it to its advantage, they stand a great chance in improving its economy.

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