The Pros And Cons Of Globalization

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The idea of globalization includes a variety of different aspects of economic, political, and societal life. In order to question of whether or not globalization has a progressive or downbeat influence in our contemporary world, we should look at different perspectives of component of globalization. According to Marx and Engels, globalization can be raised from capitalism, which a class struggle between who own the means of production and those who work for a wage exist. Throughout a development of cooperative resist on the part of groups of people with similar economic situations, they argue that capitalism brings optimistic and pessimistic impacts into our modern society. Correspondingly, in the article “Disjuncture and Difference in the …show more content…

When Marx and Engels advocate that capitalism has created a world market, they refer to say that this globalization has eliminated cultural borders, cultural industries and cultural differences. It means there can be less discrimination within the issues of race, gender, and class at the same time it also replaces indigenous cultural aspects. Nevertheless, Appadurai disagrees on what Marx and Engels state about the globalization reducing cultural boundaries by declaring that cultural globalization remain significant cultural differences across national borders. What he claims to outline is that globalization is not all about the dominating local cultures or the resist to remove cultural differences. Instead, the world today functions as a global cultural economy filled with players and forces, which shift the cultural economic balance fairly. In view of that, Marx and Engels argue that global market forces have contributed to integration and increasing traffic of global culture from the dominant view of globalization as global village, while Appadurai dines that both the observations of global village and cultural imperialism succeed since it is a controlled and encouraged diversity and heterogeneity, impacted by shifting terrains of power and …show more content…

Nonetheless, she did not only get negative racist commentary, but also supports of internet users who are especially sensitive to ideas about how race and control of cultural nationality informed criticisms of Lou’s critics. This phenomenon is neither a part of a global village because people did not accept diversity of global culture, nor is a part of cultural imperialism since any one of racial nationalities is dominant over another cultural practices. Accordingly, we observe this occurrence as a mix of the two processes in what Appadurai calls “disjuncture flows,” where movement of things, ideas, products interact but do not determine one another. There are people, who make harmful racist commentary on Lou Jing’s nationality as Chinese via looking at this event from their view of cultural imperialism, and others who support Lou Jing’s nationality as a Black Chinese by observing the event from their view of global village. As a result, new chaos from the expansion of cultural globalization society let us see the whole globalizing process as cultural disjuncture flows, rather than leading

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