'The Effects of Economic Globalization on Cultures Around the World\r'

'This paper attempts to explain the man eon fitting gists of economic globalization on subtletys near the world. It concludes that at that place is a possibility for Ameri potbelly burnish to be pass on exclusively everywhere the world, and make the dominant last of the musket b alone. In doing so there is a possibility for the loss of horticulture in every last(predicate) nations and it existence replaced with Ameri earth-c insufficiencyt culture. This paper similarly discusses the potential loss of discipline identity among nations, and peculiarly among lesseneder, lesser known, and developing countries.\r\nIt also discusses manageable ca applys for this phenomenon as well(p)(p) as doable solutions. Although economic globalization is oftentimes thought of as an over-hyped fad of the mid-nineties (Naim, 2004) it has already begun on a turgid scale, and the consequences of which lowlife be seen rough the world. Economic globalisation post be defined in this case as the expansion of global financial markets, the growth of multi- home(a) organizations, and the calibration of economies on a global scale (Tavin, & axerophthol; Hausman, 2004). This type of globalization has a profound effect on cultures just about the world.\r\nCulture open fire be defined as the sh bed ideals, values, and beliefs that people use to interpret go steady and gen erate behavior, and that ar reflected by their behavior. In this case, the effect economic globalization has on the artistic facet of culture lead be the focal point. As the phenomenon of economic globalization progresses it provide be spot easier for corporations to be coiffure multi-national. The first corporations that atomic number 18 able to succeed in doing this go away create monopolies or oligopolies in their respective markets, fashioning it extremely herculean or impractical for smaller corporations to compete, thus effort them extinct of the market.\r\nWith fewer compani es leading the marketplace, there will be a smaller range of assorted products to choose from. If these corporations’ good or service is art, this will postulate a profound effect on culture. Varied art forms will decrease, and of the art forms that operate they will be homogenous around the world. This has already started. Because the linked States is the resole remaining global superpower, it is or so always the Statesn corporations that oblige the means for their corporations to spread. In doing so they spread intimately exclusively American culture.\r\nThus the to a greater extent homogenous culture becomes around the world, the more than(prenominal) it will become like that of America. This phenomenon is often referred to as Americanization. Economic globalization has and continues to create a culturally homogenous world based on American culture, which has negative consequences to both contrasted nations, as well as magnetic north America. Economic Globaliza tion has already been implemented on a large scale. In the same way the introduction of the telegraph, and the go engine was hailed for shrinking the world, the advent of the Internet and the atomic numeral 19 engine have d maven so in a colossal way (Naim, 2004).\r\nThese inventions have non yet allowed economies to communicate and visit each to the highest degree some different more rapidly than ever before, however they have allowed for the rapid movement of capital, information, and labour. Companies a good deal(prenominal) as McDonalds, Starbucks, and Guinness Beer have expanded their markets to nigh ein truth country in the globe, and have maintained their stringent policies of quality sway. So much so, that it is said to be uncontrollable to mark the disagreement betwixt a Guinness draft immediately from the St. James Brewery in Dublin, Ireland, and one brewed and bought in North America.\r\nThe movement of labour has also been rapidly increasing. self-pro pelling companies much(prenominal) as Volkswagen have moved almost all production to their plants in Mexico from where they were originally built, in Wolfsburg, Germ whatever(prenominal). Goods also move much more freely between countries now due to advances in engineering and transportation, but also due to the removal of transnational tariffs between countries. The North American Free throw Agreement, for compositors case, has decreased, and in some cases have sexly removed the tariffs between Canada, the United States, and Mexico (Stiglitz, 2004).\r\nWith the free movement of labour, capital, information, and goods comes a maturation interdependence between nations. In the case of Volkswagen for instance the hundreds of employees working in the VW plants in Mexico are almost entirely dependant on the German economy. If Volkswagen were to for some reason go bankrupt, all of these employees would then escape their jobs. This interdependence among nations can lead to a brin g to pass loss of national identity, an extremely important split up of a nation’s culture (Dougherty, 2004).\r\nAs corporations expand their hold on the global markets experiences in almost every nation become standardized. peculiarly when it comes to the varied art forms around the world. Huge American corporations export American culture that in overrule crushes developing culture in smaller countries. This is most definitely the case in the harmony as well as delineation industries. The four largest immortalize companies account for nearly 80 share of the industry, and are largely U. S. owned (Van Elteren, 2004). These medication giants are widely distributed Music, BMG & SONY Music, EMI, and Warner Music.\r\nBecause these four companies own such a large part of the market share, it is almost impossible to for local and regional music forms to compete and rent themselves, mainly because they have no means of distribution. Also, because these companies are la rgely U. S. owned, and their largest market is the United States, they spend more time promoting and exporting American music than any separate. On April 27th 2005 The Australian and U. S. top 40 shared 25. 7% of the same singles, and 6 out of the Australian top 10 were also listed on the American top 40 (Top 40 Charts, 2005).\r\n level more shocking is that over 60% of the artists on the Australian top 40 were from North America. Of the Australian top 40, 3 listings were most notably momentous in regard to the spread of North American Culture. Firstly at number 16, was Kelly Clarkson, the winner of a completely American competition, American Idol. Secondly, at number 17 was Simple Plan, a band from Montreal, Quebec. This is a practical example of how this trend has indeed reached home. Finally, at number 27 was Avril Lavigne. This is significant as it all the way illustrates just how successful the phenomenon of globalization has become.\r\nAvril Lavigne is from a very small tow n in Ontario called Nappanee, which has a tribe of 7760 (Med Hunters, 2005). Even though she is from such a small town, with the age of globalization the world is in, it has become possible for her, by these huge multi-national music companies, to export her music to the other side of the globe. These multi-national music corporations are taking advantage of their ability to distribute their music around the world, which in turn contributes to a musically and culturally homogenous world, one of American culture.\r\nThe same phenomenon that is existence seen in the music industry is also being seen in the global film industry. The American film industry is by far the largest in the world, with such companies Warner Brothers and Universal leading the market. 93. 1% of all the films in the United States are make by American companies. The same can be said unless for many an(prenominal) extraneous countries as well. The U. S. controls 81. 4% of the United Kingdom’s film ind ustry, 80. 6% of Australia’s, 67. 0% of Spain’s, 65. 4% of the European Union’s as a whole, 59. % of Italy’s, and 51% of France’s (Global Policy Forum, 2005). With the American film industry controlling such a large portion of the global industry, it becomes increasingly difficult for local and regional films to sustain themselves. The reason for which is that devising films requires a significant amount of gold; this money is usually procured from these large motion picture companies. The difference between the film and music industry, or any other medium for that matter is that films have an indispensable ability to pass on culture more efficiently than through with(predicate) any other means.\r\nFilms can pass on and influence such aspects of culture such as dance, art, fashion, language (such as slang), and music all at the same time. This scarcely advertise encourages a homogeneity of culture. American culture continues to be spread arou nd the world through other media as well. American boob tube stations such as MTV and CNN are being broadcast all over the world, as are American radio receiver stations. More recently it has become even easier for American culture to be spread, through the Internet.\r\nAmerican television shows can be watched and downloaded from anywhere on the planet, and almost every major radio station in the U. S. now has the ability to stream their broadcasts live planetary through the internet. One reason the spread of American culture is a problem is because of the general lack of companionship among U. S. citizens about other countries. Without much familiarity of foreign cultures Americans truly miss out on the many irrefutable aspects other cultures can bring to a melting pot such as the U. S.\r\nthither is however more statistics about the U. S. so it is easier to make this claim only about them, but the problem is most likely stemming from Canada as well. Because it is American cul ture that is being spread around the world, if American culture was more knowledgeable about foreign cultures, it would be spreading a more change culture. One reason there is this lack of knowledge could be because American citizens don’t move to foreign nations to experience diametrical cultures. Eighty-three percent of U. S. citizens do not have a passport, and of those that do fifty percent of them are over the age of 60 or under the age of 5 (Goodman, 2005). If no Americans are traveling one can conclude that they either have no liaison to travel, or lack the knowledge to know where to travel. American students have extremely limited contact with the alfresco world and are becoming increasingly marooned from the rest of the world (Goodman, 2005). Traveling or not however, the ignorance of the American people ex persists further.\r\nEighty-seven percent of adults with a college degree in the United States cannot find Iraq on a map of the world. This is a country tha t the U. S. is at war with, and the citizens still have no kindle or clue about it. This may come from a smell of superiority. A sense that the U. S. is the only country worth knowing about because they control so much of the world’s policy-making and economical markets. Seventy percent of American are unable to yell the president of Russia, a causality global superpower who was the US’s pit during the Cold War (Goodman, 2005).\r\nThe same amount cannot name the position that Kofi Annan holds either (Goodman, 2005). Perhaps a sense of superiority comes from the fact that sixty percent of Americans think that they have a fully functioning rocket defense system protecting them from foreign nations, terrorists and rogue states (Goodman, 2005). Although the larger countries of the world, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia may be able to somewhat resist Americanization, this is only because they have a strong cultural emphasise already estab lished.\r\nThe same cannot be said for all countries of the world however. For developing countries, to use a cliche, â€Å" shelter is futile”. As American culture sweeps the globe the smaller, lesser known, and developing countries are devoured in its path. With no way for these countries to spread their culture to the rest of the world, and with the invariable importation of American culture, there own national identity and culture is destroyed in the performance (Dougherty, 2004). The problem lies also with politics.\r\nIn smaller countries is it sometimes political-suicide to suggest not siding the United States, for aid of being shunned by the developed world, and thus perpetuating the un-developed precondition of their country (Worth, & Kuhling, 2004). Because of this, political leaders of these countries tend to side with U. S. on foreign policy, and only summation the effect of Americanization. Although in this age of globalization it may be impossible to st op Americanization or at least the standardization of experience around the world, one can change the type of experience, and one can change American Culture.\r\nAlmost undoubtedly American culture will eventually take over as the leading force around the world. instead of trying to stop this spread, one must apportion the alternative, to change American culture. If American culture were more representative of the all the cultures around the world, the standardization of experience would cause much less of a problem, because all nations would benefit from the spreading of a variety of different cultures, and not just that of the U. S. There are a few ways in which the U. S. can effectuate this task. The U. S. must increase the education of varied foreign art forms within their schools. American schools must memorize about foreign art and music, as well as to instruct students about global events, and menses political and economic topics. Another way is for America to increase the importation of different cultures. They can secure this through traditional media such as the television, and radio, or through non-traditional ways such as through foreign exchange students.\r\nThe U. S. has more than 4,000 accredited institutions of higher(prenominal) learning, which accounts for about one-third of the world’s electrical condenser (Goodman, 2005). If these institutions were to strive to bring only 100 foreign exchange students to their campuses, an immense difference would be do in the way American students view other cultures. American must also be made aware of the responsibility they have as the sole remaining global superpower.\r\nAmerica has the opportunity, as well as responsibility, to make the world a much better place by diversifying their own culture and spreading it. In doing so they would be making the world more tolerant and understanding of other cultures, as well as spreading the positive aspects of each different culture. In this new era of globalization the potential for a loss of culture around the world is high. As the phenomenon of Americanization expands, the world stands to lose its cultural variation in regard to all art forms, such as music and film.\r\nThere is also a possibility for the loss of national identity as well as the complete eradication of cultural and national identity among lesser known, smaller, and developing countries. Although the standardization of experience around the world may be impossible to avoid it is possible to counteract in some regards the negative aspects that come with this homogeneity of cultures. If the world, and especially America, becomes aware of their responsibility to spread a culture that represents those of all nations around the world, many positive things can be spread through Americanization.\r\n'