Saturday, May 12, 2007
Cultural Globalization: CULTUre-mix
JJ's (For your information, I'm JiaJin if anyone of you have yet to notice ^-^ )back to post again, and this time round, I'll be covering on what exactly is 'Cultural Globalization'. With that, I shall use how immigration and emigration has influenced the world today!
Every year, many people choose to move to other countries in search of a better life or one of which they think suits them better. Everytime these people move themselves from one country to another, like magnets, they actually pick up new forms of culture and incorporate it into their own original cultures. With that, cultures 'mix' and sooner or later, it would not seem surprising for people of various countries to share the same culture -- the growth of a global consesus and the consolidation of the world society. One of such cultures that is already evident is the use of the English language. I mean, why don't we have our first language as Chinese or Malay, Indian or Hindi, Japanese or Korean? Strange isn't it? Ah, speaking of all these various languages, I guess, the immigration of our forefathers to Singapore also shows how the mixing of cultures result in the formation of what we call 'Singlish'!
Despite foreign influence and stuff, I guess it wouldn't really make sense if the whole world switches to monoculture.though,for I think there is still the possibility of countries preserving their own unique cultures in the near future despite how national boundaries have collapsed with the internet and globalization.If not, what is the need for seperating Earth into countries then, when cultures are same througout the world? ^-^
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