Money Dissolves Culture Flashcards
Singapore tried to become a
“World City”
Inviting global art in ________
undermines local art
Art is the symbol of a
of a city lifestyle
“World City” and art in singapore
joining the global sphere by attracting global arts and culture.
Using art as an economic tool
erases the true nature of art.
Funding for global artists
400 million
Funding for local artists
3 million
Funding to build the esplanade
437 million USD.
Rules for performers coming to singapore
not to come out into audience
audience not allowed to stand up
audience not allowed to go on stage
pressure for govt. to change these standards
Singapore successfully brought the world to singpapore, but did not
bring Singapore to the world.
Bhutan culture and location (question)
How do you preserve the culture when it is next to the world’s more populated countries? China and India
Population of Bhutan
807,500
Bhutan consciously tried to keep
their continuity of traditional life
in bhutan television did not arrive until
until 1999
In 2006, the reigning mornach..
abdicated the throne purposefully so that they could become a democratic state.
“it was to safeguard against the risk that a future monarch would be incompetent or worse. “
Dasho Penden Wangchuk, the Secretary of Home and Cultural Affairs
“Democracy may not be the best form of government, but it is the one accepted by the world.”
Secretary of Home and Cultural Affairs
Dasho Penden Wangchuk
Globalization killing culture in bhutan
- more transportation networks - all students required to learn english
- modernization
- globalization
- democratization
How bhutan addresses external cultural influences
High value, low impact tourism
Museamizing artefacts (actually sent buddhist priests to perform with the exhibits)
Bhutan only opened tourism to the world in
1974
Why did Bhutan open tourism to the world?
in an effort to:
raise revenue
to promote Bhutanese unique culture and traditions to the outside world
in an effort to preserve the culture
“high value, low volume” tourism
The principle of “high value, low volume” has been the overall tourism policy since 1974, which later changed to “high value, low impact” in 2008.
Global interdependence
More and more of your life is dependent on decisions made far away from you.
Time-space compression
the set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer.”
Culture in a globalized world becomes less
spatial
Globalization impact on culture
hybridisation
monocultures
possible preservation of existing cultures
Edzo (traditionally a village called Rae)
A village populated by the Dogrib (First Nations).
Time of the edzo story
1970
Applied scientist who criticized what happened in Edzo
Donald Gamble
Applied Scientists and people in power saw:
- poor sanitization
- poor drainage
- illness and infant mortality
- poor housing
What happened in Edzo
Applied scientists, government officials, hired health officials and engineers decided the town needed to be moved.
- idea to take these people and move them to a better environment
Chief said “most people don’t want it but go ahead”
SCIENCE IGNORED THE HUMAN CONDITION
Problem of new location of edzo
- no access to resources, to the landscape needed for hunting and gathering (essential to their lives)
Abu Dhabi and Saudi Ariabia
Abu Dhabi Bought the louvre for 500
Saudi Arabia: Opened a university where the laws against women are lessened (to draw intl students)
King of Bhutan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
