READING 2 : What is the relation between culture and globalization ? MINJI JEONG

 1. summary

    To understand culture and globalization, one must first understand the defining characteristics of the two constituent terms. Globalization will accept the broad general proposition that economic, political, and technological advances, especially multi-dimensional processes that occur simultaneously within the environmental and cultural domains of media and communication technologies. The inter-age and interdependence that characterize the material, social, economic, and cultural life of the modern world means a network that develops rapidly and continues to become dense. Understanding globalization as a generalized process that increases connectivity helps keep in mind the multidimensional complexity of the process. You cannot escape the global dominance of the capitalist system and little can be gained by cultural analysts underestimating its enormous importance.
    Culture is not power, and social events can be attributed causally. It should be considered that the cultural process is mainly aimed at the composition of socially shared meanings. If you ask the question, "What is culture for?" the most satisfactory answer is to create the meaning of life.
Then, what is the globalization of culture? This is one of the common assumptions about the globalization process that various cultures will lead to a single global culture. This is possible because the 'unification' effect of connectivity can be seen in other areas, especially in the economic areas where closely integrated systems in the global market provide models.
    However, increasing global connectivity does not necessarily mean that the world is "unified," both economically and politically, in the broadest sense. In addition, globalized culture does not encompass the culture of all countries, so we must define the concept of globalization as an unequal process. Another way to approach these problems is to look at modern globalization in a much longer historical context in which society and culture imagine the world as a place and center their own culture. 

    De-territorialization can be talked about as a way to approach the globalization of culture. Most of us live in the region, but globalization is rapidly changing our experience of this 'region' and one way to grasp this change is the concept of 'de-territorialization'.This means the loss of the natural relationship of culture to the geographical and social areas. Therefore, de-territorialization means that the importance of the geographical location of culture, such as physical, environmental, and climatic locations, as well as all self-justification, ethnic boundaries, and classification practices occurring around them, is weakening. In fact, this concept has quite radical theoretical implications for the traditional way of understanding culture. Culture implicitly connects the meaning of tying culture to the idea of a fixed region.


2. Interesting items


     In general, when considering the globalization of culture, it seems that it has been accepted as just the flow of the times. Therefore, there is a tendency to focus only on the positive effects of globalization. But I was able to read and think about the limitations of cultural globalization. The globalization of culture does not cover the culture of all countries. It is highly likely that cultures of countries that are frequently exposed to the media or judged to be popular will lead the culture. (For example, the culture of developed countries. ) The resulting phenomenon of cultural unification can also be seen as a problem. The globalization of culture is rather likely to harm each country's unique and diverse cultures.

3. Discussion point

    The globalization of culture has two sides. It also has the advantage of being able to enjoy each country's culture beyond regional limitations by strengthening the global network, and the risk of harming each country's various cultures and unifying culture. Nevertheless, the globalization of culture is inevitable. In this situation, how can we derive more sound cultural globalization?





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