Globalisation: Bringing the world closer together, but tearing tradition apart

Exactly. That's an even more accurate way to look at it.

 

I agree that culture is living and breathing...but it's now becoming homogenous and THAT is what we are fighting against. Look at the pop-culture clones who look, dress, act, talk, walk, think alike. I can barely tell one person from the next anymore. THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING.

 

homogenity can be a very good thing for the rulers.
and who controls the flow of all things? the rulers.
what do you have to be in order to change this? a ruler.
would you want to change this when you become a ruler? no, because that would entail a loss in power.
unless of course, you are an enlightened ruler. in which case, we're all saved.
but, since no such thing exists today, we're all screwed, at least so far =\

 

Globalization helps everyone, not just rich people. Did India have a middle class of any substantial size, before it abandoned socialism and opened its doors to American businesses? No.

So what's your point? The solution is to expose Americans to more foreign cultures, not to shield foreigners from American culture. And American values won't take hold in other parts of the world if the people living there find their old ways to be better. So what's the problem?

The rate of change is hardly too high. Third-world nations are modernizing at fast but steady rates. There are less "problems and friction" now that at almost any point in the last century. None of the world's powerful countries are particularly belligerent toward one another, and the amount of deaths worldwide caused by war is at its lowest level in at least a century.

You're the one who seems to be preaching that, not me. I'm in favor of exposing people to many different ideas and letting them make up their own mind. You seem to be in favor of closing the doors of foreign countries to any Western ideas (ie any ideas you disagree with).

In your complaints about how foreigners are being exposed to big bad American culture too fast, there seems to be a tacit admission that many other groups of people prefer American ideas to their traditional ideas once they're exposed to them...

 

i never said i hated globalization man, i just said it helped the rich people more than it did the common man. of course it helped the lower classes, just, not as much as the elite.

my point is, globalization's going to spread western culture to the east, because corporations are going to have an easier time moving from west to east than east to west because the western companies are richer. but im not saying we need to shield the east from the west.
nothing bad in the transfusion of cultures, heck i love a blend of cultures with a heavy western element, so its all good for me.
its just going to be (much) harder transferring eastern values to the west.
but there is no 'problem'

ok, agreed.