globalization and culture

Nowadays, you can see McDonald's everywhere when you walked in the streets. Does this mean anything? Yes, it means American culture spread to the everywhere in the world!

Some people considered this is Americanization since American culture is so popular in the world. Especially for young people, they eat McDonald's, they listen to Michael Jackson, the clothes they wear become more alike.

Are we gonna lose our own traditions? And become all the same in the all different countries.

Here is a interesting video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7zscjiIo8

the negative effect of globalization

Globalization benefits people's standard of living in many ways, but it brings many problems at the same time too.

First, globalization accelerates the spread of diseases, such as AIDS, SARS etc. Globalization just bring the diseases to every country, every city, and every place. It is getting harder and harder to control any kinds of diseases.

Second, globalization make the gap between rich and poor getting bigger. Rich become richer, poor become poorer. Since the developed countries have better technology than the developing countries, people want to invest in developed countries more. So the developed countries get the more benefits from the globalization in a economic aspect.

Even lots of people do not like globalization, but we have to accept it since globalization is speeding.

here is a video about globalization in a general way, easy to understand!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kpv3qW9v0

WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?

Nowadays, people talk about globalization all the time, so what is globalization? generally, "globalization is what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates" (Coatsworth, 2004).

Why and how globalization happens? There are four pillars of it:

1. the large scale of immigration

2. the global economic

3. new technologies

4. cultural transformation

since globalization, we know what's happened about Tiger Wood better than our neighborhood; We can eat Chinese food, Sushi, Korean food, Mexican Food, and more at Grandriver, where a main street in East Lansing; We can see all different colors people walk around at campus. This is how globalization impact our lives.

But do all the implications of globalization are positive?

(To be continued)