Globalization and Culture It is stated in the work of Lieber and Weisberg that culture "in its various forms now serves as a primary carrier of globalization and modern values and constitutes an important arena of contestation for national, religious, and ethnic identity." (2002, p.273) Technology was envisioned by Bill Clinton to be such that would further the cause of liberty however the other side of technology is more ominous in nature. Lieber and Weisberg write that from the view of both an artist and a political scientist it is possible to delve into the meeting of culture and politics with a synergistic effect that enables one to gain a better view that would be gained in a study on culture or politics alone. (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, paraphrased) From all appearances, for everything gained by globalization, something is also lost. The example stated in the work of Lieber and Weisberg ask, "who among us would not be disturbed by, for example, the echo of rap music in an old Barcelona neighborhood, the demise of local food products and neighborhood shops, or the proliferation of the same brand and chain stores from San Francisco to Santiago to Shanghai? (2002, p.274) In this specific work Lieber and Weisberg examine the irrational hatred held for the U.S. By bin Laden and the Taliban and report that there are two primary cultural anxiety factors and those are (1) globalization; and (2) American primacy. (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, p. 277) There are therefore two reactions identified globally to globalization and those are specifically cultural symbolic reactions and culturally intense reactions or in other words polar opposite reactions to globalization. American primacy while viewed as irritating by the more modernized countries that are larger and weld more power such as Japan and the same can be said for Europe however, to smaller more vulnerable countries American primacy is viewed as threatening and overpowering. Leiber and Weisberg relate that a phenomenon that emerges...
Appiah (2006) notes that the 21st century "urban geographies of privilege have been exacerbated by globalization and cosmopolitanism. However, the ability to "become a cosmopolite is necessarily circumscribed by socioeconomic factors." (2002, p.278) Foer writes that the events of September 11, 2001 "formed another convergence where geographies of privilege and challenge intersected." (2005) It is reported by Lieber and Weisberg that the hatred of bin Laden and the Taliban which was directed at the United States was more for the purpose of having killed than for the purpose of attempting to make policy demands" therefore showing how the Taliban hates not only the U.S. government but the entirety of the American society and the American way of living which reflects that the grievance of bin Laden and the Taliban was not "only what our leaders do, but also who we are." (Lieber and Weisberg, 2002, p. 278) According to Lieber and Weisberg such a "transference of deep-seated rage about turmoil and humiliation within their own societies into bitter attacks upon the United States can be understood in many ways, but above all it represents a sublimation of anger and its redirection toward a source that has little to do with the problem in the first place." (p.293) According to Samuel Huntington "cultural characteristics and differences are less mutable and hence less easily compromised and resolved than political and economic ones." (2002, p.275) This may help to understand the odd choices that are made by groups and individuals in which the choice is clearly against the best interest of the group or individual. Americans are held to have made an art…
Globalization: Annotated Bibliography Gills, Dong-Sook. (2002, May). "Globalization of Production and Women in Asia." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 581 (Globalization and Democracy Special Issue): 106-120. Gillis Dong-Sook (2002) in her article "Globalization of Production and Women in Asia" asserts that globalization has fundamentally shifted the relationship of women, work and power in the developing nations of Asia. In her analysis of the economic, political, and cultural impact of
Global Culture I find the idea that the world is becoming homogenized to American culture to be parochial, offensive and ill-formed, the product surely of American thinking. Nobody from any other culture would see the world in that light, because they are actually informed about the non-American world. Writers arguing in favor of the idea that the world is becoming homogenized to American culture are laughably ill-informed. They make heroic errors
Hats and Globalization The hat stand in South Korea is visible in the picture "global" in a cultural sense because it is reflective of the cultural changes swirling all around the South Korean market. It sits, first of all, in front of a Western bakery shop -- a Dunkin' Donuts -- which is in and of itself an emblem of a foreign culture within the Asian culture of South Korea. The
East Asia's economies began expanding through the exporting of low-value, labor-intensive goods such as textiles (Qin-Hilliard & Suarez-Orozco 2004). Africa There are several countries in Africa that have been globalized. Somalia is a prime example of an African nation that has many different factors that can and will result in the success or failure of globalization. On the one hand, there is a great deal of terrorist issues that arise out
The San played into this as it was expected of them and as they did so they began to accept the expectations and beliefs of the rest of the world with regard to their identity. As a group it became what was expected of it and the individuals of the group did the same. Two years ago the bushman took their government to court because they alleged they had been effectively
Globalization Does world trade make the world smaller by bringing people closer together? Or does it divide the globe by creating winners and losers through greater inequality? Globalization is a complex phenomenon that is often misunderstood. Part of this trend deals with a movement toward more integrated economic and political systems. Yet, today's societies face both an internal and external political environment and socio-economic factors that are marked by unprecedented levels of
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