Unit 3 - culture and community

Question 1

Cultural globalisation (definition)

Answer 1

the rapid spread and exchange of ideas, attitudes, meaning, values and cultural products between different people in different places.

Question 2

Homogenization (definition)

Answer 2

the process of making things uniform or similar.

Question 3

Heterogenization (definition)

Answer 3

the act of making something diverse or heterogeneous (adopting global).

Question 4

Hybridization

Answer 4

Mixing or blending of different cultural traits and elements of different cultures and the consequent emergence of a new, unique culture.

Question 5

Polarisation

Answer 5

division into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs.

Question 6

factors of rejecting of global culture:

Answer 6

Protection of national identity
Protect business from international competition
Political motives
Protect the country

Question 7

How do different cultures resist global culture? (examples)

Answer 7

France:

Toubon law: States that french must be the primary language used in all official communications i.e government and workplaces (resisting the spread of other languages i.e english)

The EU accepted France’s request for their audio visual sector to be excluded from the EU-USA free trade agreement. (a cultural exception that would protect the industry from american influences)

Money is invested into French businesses such as book stores, cafés and film. (2019 President Macron announced a 5 billion in french technology)

North Korea:

Rejecting foreign business and investment opportunities

Discouraging foreign visitors (must have a guide with them)

Extreme nationalism in which citizens are required to display their admiration for their leader

Censorship of media, all media is owned by the government – this is restricted and controlled.

Question 8

Cultural globalisation

Answer 8

Sharing of cultural ideas and different information between different countries, particularly through food, social media, internet, entertainment, arts etc.

Question 9

Economic globalisation

Answer 9

when economies and companies from different countries connect through trade and exchange of resources.

Question 10

Political globalisation

Answer 10

When there is political cooperation between different countries - belief that global organisations are better than individual states in order to prevent conflict.

Question 11

Financial globalisation

Answer 11

when world’s financial system become interconnected e.g stock markets, financial markets

Question 12

Technological globalisation

Answer 12

spread and access of technological advancements and telecommunications across borders.

Question 13

Environmental globalisation

Answer 13

internationally coordinated practices and regulations regarding environmental protection.

Question 14

What impact has globalisation had on the global economy?

Answer 14

Multinational corporations have global reach and increasing power, travel and shipping are cheap and safe, governments have decreased tariffs and regulations on international trade. There has been a movement of manufacturing industries from high wage countries to lower wage countries.

Question 15

‘cultural blending’. What is this? Is it a positive or negative phenomenon?

Answer 15

Immigrants blend cultures together when migrating to other countries, a negative would be that through cultural blending one could become more dominant i.e Americanisation

Question 16

Why are people resisting globalisation?

Answer 16

Huge multinational corporations have become incredibly powerful, whilst the wealthy global elite have benefited massively from these normal working people and the natural environment has often been exploited.
Our governments now care more about the wishes of big business than they do about the people in the country.
Traditional cultures have been influenced and eroded by global culture and also because migration has increased leading to more multicultural societies.