Is Globalization likely to result in a homogenization of world culture?

Is Globalization likely to result in a homogenization of world culture?

Introduction

Many define Globalization, as a series of developments that may lead to increasingly larger parts of the world in some way drawn into and integrated into global forces and processes of consumption, economic, political, social, cultural, religious or commercial communication type.

This paper is based on the premise that globalization is likely to result in a homogenization of world culture because: Interconnectedness of globalization (technology, ways of travelling, communication ways, media), the multinational businesses and also that the United Nations is trying to spread common values and ethics worldwide and one more if it's possible.

Discussion

Globalization

Term's origins can be found in the 1800 - and 1900-century studies of modernity's breakthrough (e.g. among Marx and Saint-Simon). Since the 1980s, and especially after the Iron Curtain in 1989, the issue of globalization has become an increasingly important part of public debate and a central theme in discussions about international politics and development. The term encompasses a whole range of phenomena, it is not clear, and it covers the fundamental differences both in analyses of national and international developments and different political beliefs about how the world should be. It has been questioned whether globalization is a new phenomenon, or whether one can say that in earlier centuries has been around economic, political and religious networks at regional and international levels (Appadurai, 2011). Many will still argue that the speed and scope of processes of change in our time is something special and new, in any case, such views given rise to globalization studies and intense debates within many disciplines and between different political actors.

In academic and political analyses are not obtained any clear understanding of globalization, but in broad terms, one can say that on the one hand, a position that would argue that we are faced with a real and profound transformation process, while others maintain that focus on globalization is exaggerated and blurs the forces that shape the world's development. Marxists and sceptics, for example, argued that the classical imperialism has been replaced by new forces that G8 countries and multilateral agencies like the World Bank and IMF, and that they serve the interests of capital (Escobar, 2011). Globalisation thus perceived as a form of Westernization or Americanization. Globalists would however point out that the changes we observe are deep and structural character. Examples of this include the development of multinational companies and global financial markets, the rapid spread of popular culture, and joint efforts against transnational issues such as the environment, drugs and AIDS (Lechner, 2005).

Homogenization of World Culture

Globalization question has been linked to debates about a series of mutually interconnected phenomena. First rule is disagreement whether it is still the nation states that have the domestic and foreign power, or about the emergence of supranational bodies within the United Nations system, international political cooperation and pressure groups and social movements have led to a global policy through treaties, agreements ...