Reading Assignment 2:THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE——LI YULUN

(1). Summary

The aim is to reveal the cultural practices of globalization. With regard to globalization, he suggests that it is necessary to think in terms of daily life experiences and to analyze the closeness and uniqueness of it. With regard to culture, he argues that it is necessary to clarify cultural purposefulness in terms of the intricate practical relationship between culture and politics and economics, i.e., what feelings make life full of meaning. He is more concerned with the widely accepted characteristics of culture, and he borrows Williams's famous phrase "culture is common" to explain his own culture. In fact, Tomlinson explores the connection between globalization and culture in terms of hybridization, media proximity, and cosmopolitanism, suggesting that globalization is not only the global movement of capital, labor, and commodities. It also brings about a transformation of our cultural experience. This cultural experience is both secular, universal and profound. He focuses on the "non-territoriality" of globalization. He focuses on the concept of "non-territorial expansion," arguing that non-territorial

expansion is the cultural condition of our current globalization, which is present in everyday experience and captures It is present in everyday experience and captures many aspects of globalized culture. What the concept of "non-territorial expansion" is trying to convey is that globalization is fundamentally a way to make our lives more sustainable. It transforms the relationship between our cultural practices, cultural experiences, and cultural identities. It has transformed the relationship between our cultural practices, our cultural experiences and our sense of cultural identity, and it has weakened or dissolved the link between everyday vibrant culture and territoriality. It weakens or dissolves the link between everyday vibrant culture and territorial status; this presents both opportunities and dangers for national cultures. Therefore, he calls for the solidarity of the whole world. The world is united.

(2). Interesting point

Throughout the different theories and perspectives, the authors still lu the following issues: the relationship between globalization and culture, the construction of global culture, and the issue of cultural globalization. -The major methodological change in globalization theory in the 1990s was the introduction of the concept of culture into the field of study, which broadened the inclusiveness and increased the explanatory power of globalization theory.

(3). Discussion point

Culture is the soul of a nation and a country, and every nation and country has its value inheritance and spiritual accumulation. National culture is developed and accumulated over a long period of time and is the root of a nation. Due to the differences in population and race, geographical environment and social production methods, different ethnic groups and countries have formed different ways of thinking, values and customs in their historical development, creating a pluralistic culture, and each culture is irreplaceable and irreproducible. The recognition of cultural differences and the realization of cultural coexistence are the basis for the survival and development of each nation and country and for international cooperation. Denying such differences and blindly promoting convergence will not only lead to the weakening or even disappearance of people's self-identity, but will also lead to the decline of national culture and the downfall of nations. How to better solve these problems