1.1: Global culture

Question 1

Global culture refers to what?

Answer 1

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural:
1. Products
2. Activities
becoming ‘universal’

Question 2

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where what?

Answer 2

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where:
1. Brands
2. Food
3. Films
4. Other cultural products
are identical across many different countries

Question 3

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures do what?

Answer 3

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where:

1. Brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries
2. National cultures lose their distinctiveness

Question 4

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of what?

Answer 4

This is linked to the trend of globalisation

Question 5

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
Globalisation is what?

Answer 5

Globalisation is the process by which:

1. The world becomes more interconnected
2. Activities in different countries influence each other

Question 6

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
What are all examples of global brands?

Answer 6

1. McDonald’s
2. Microsoft
3. Nike
4. Coca-Cola
   are all examples of global brands

Question 7

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly what?

Answer 7

1. McDonald’s
2. Microsoft
3. Nike
4. Coca-Cola
   are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world

Question 8

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a what?

Answer 8

1. McDonald’s
2. Microsoft
3. Nike
4. Coca-Cola
   are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture

Question 9

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
Who argued even in the 1960s that what?

Answer 9

McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place

Question 10

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place.
We now live in a what?

Answer 10

We now live in a ‘global village’

Question 11

Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place.
We now live in a ‘global village.’
This has been driven by what?

Answer 11

This has been driven by:

1. Industry (multinational companies)
2. Travel
3. A globally accessible media
4. The internet in particular

Question 12

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural)

Answer 12

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are:

1. Technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones
2. Social media

Question 13

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all what?

Answer 13

Social media means that we are all interconnected

Question 14

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
Example

Answer 14

For example, we can:

1. FaceTime someone across the world
2. Send money across the world to people in need

Question 15

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include what?

Answer 15

The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries

Question 16

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries, such as what?

Answer 16

The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries, such as Libya

Question 17

Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The negative effects on individual cultures of such developments include what?

Answer 17

The negative effects on individual cultures of such developments include that:

1. Cultures are losing their distinctiveness
2. A lot of cultures are becoming westernised