Impact of Globalization

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Globalization can impact on a country’s traditional culture and has different aspects which affect the world in several ways suach as politics, competition, finance, language, culture, technology, religion and economics.

Regarding the language, the most popular language is Mandarin, which has 845 million speakers, followed by Spanish, which has 329 million speakers, and english, which has 328 million speakers. Most radio programs are in english and about 50% of all internet users use the internet in english. Language also affects Turkey too. You can see billboards which are written in english. Moreover, there are a considerably amount of english words that we use in our social life.

Regarding competition, the companies in industries have to develop their products in order to increase competition between the rival companies. This causes new good to be exposed in the country.

Cultural globalization causes growth of cross-cultural contacts, identites which represent cultural diffusion, they want to increase the standard of living and losing the language. Furthermore, greater immigration, including illegal immigration increases globalization. The games which becomes popular all around the world, such as Pokemon, Sudoku, Youtube and Facebook are substantial segments of the Earth’s population which affects globalization. Cultural globalization aggects Turkey very much. Turkey used to depend on eastern traditions but due to globalization, nowadays Turkey has become closer to the western traditions. For instance, as Guardianweekly points out, Pakistan’s youth has put their faith in rock and roll. They are influenced by another country’s music style nd they have adopted rock and rock as their popular music. This is a good representation of globalization. Turkish people also like rock and roll music. There are many clubs which plays rock and roll music, and many people who wears different types.

There are many good impacts of technological globalization and using such technology as the internet, communication satellites, wireless telephones and so on. Besides Turkey started to bring new technological products such as 3G which supplied in other countries before. My country takes an example by the other countries, and this shows that Turkey has been started to globalize.

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