Cultural Globalization

This portion of the paper is discussing cultural globalization which means sameness.[1] Dr. George Grant would argue that the Liberal doctrine was about universalism and sameness. In 1970s Coca Cola was an international brand name.[2] In 1980, McDonald became an international fast food.[3] Today, clothes, and hair styles “are only one form of cultural expression that permits a blending of ethnic themes and individual choice.”[4] Foods are no longer belonged to one part of the world. Sushi which is a Japaneses food, it can be consumed in most part of the world.[5]

Hollywood plays a major role to spread western culture around the world. Young people watch Hollywood movies and listen to western music that the above entertainment give them source of inspiration to become like western world.

Music is another vital tool to bring diverse people in a common ground. Most people around the world know who Michael Jackson is. His music is available in iTunes for a small fee.[6] The Internet provided social Medias like YouTube, FaceBook and blogs that people can post a video clip of an event on YouTube in order to share it with others around the world, and create concept of globality or global village. If a person feels like to express her/himself online can use a blog and contributes to world of thinking and creating social cohesion among people.[7]

The globalization is facing challenges from Castells “network society and its “systematic disjunction between the local and the global for most individuals and social groups … search for meaning takes place then in the construction of defensive identities around communal principles.”[8] The above ideas are difficult to believe because it is lacking ingenuity impart the real culprits that causes chaos are politicians and corporate that they act behind the scene and causing unrest around the world. It was during June 2010 summit in Toronto, Ontario Canada people who went on protest, and authority responded with iron fist and CBC aired a program “You Should Have Stayed Home” that how people lost their civil liberty in light of globalization.

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[1]    Modern Governance: The Challenges for Policy Analysis. PG 60

[2]    Brym, Robert. “New Society: Sociology for the 21^st Century”. N.p.: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996. 15.13. Print.

[3]    Brym, Robert. “New Society: Sociology for the 21^st Century”. N.p.: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996. 15.13. Print.

[4]    Brym, Robert. “New Society: Sociology for the 21^st Century”. N.p.: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996. 15.19. Print.

[5]    Brym, Robert. “New Society: Sociology for the 21^st Century”. N.p.: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996. 15.19. Print.

[6]    Modern Governance: The Challenges for Policy Analysis. PG 66

[7]    Modern Governance: The Challenges for Policy Analysis. PG 67

[8]    Modern Governance: The Challenges for Policy Analysis. PG 67