Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Another post about cultural globalization not being Americanization

There is one aspect of this article that was probably very controversial. The author addresses the hypocrisy of people who say they love cultural globalization but in reality only like part of it. These types of people are all for the idea of having many different cultural influences in America- lots of delicious food, different types of music, and beautiful arts and crafts from all around the world, for example- but when it comes to American products and influences going abroad to these smaller countries, these people are offended, saying that the ancient cultures need to be preserved and the freedom of the people of those countries need to be protected. But the author says that in reality it is those people's choice to have those products and influences there, and trying to prevent that would be taking away their freedom. I think I can agree with him to an extent, just so long as America isn't pushing its culture upon smaller ones and smothering them out. But I can definitely see how it could be argued that that was happening. For a more convincing essay, I would want the author to give more evidence to show for sure that it wasn't happening.

1 comment:

  1. There is definitely a double-standard in some cases, fair or not. America has a bad history of intruding itself in situations it doesn't really belong. I agree the author could have defended that point better.

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