Modernization As A Positive Effects Of Globalization

Culture, religion, language, and history have become politicized in the formation of nation-states is a direct effect of globalization and modernization. Modernization involves economic development, technological advancement, political development and mobilization. It ultimately allows states to bring together different values and culture by providing a national identity for individuals and groups. This is achieved through politicization. For example, black people and white people were able to look beyond their racial markers and were able to identify themselves as Americans first and foremost. The melting pot, in this case, is used to assimilate people into a particular national identity. In that regards, I will advance the argument that culture, religion, and history have become politicized in the formation of nation-states as ethnic groups have become forward-looking politicized interest groups for national self-determination. In order words, the development from ethnic nationalism to civic nationalism was a direct effect of modernization and globalization. States politicized culture, religion, language and history as a means of having a more inclusive nation-state identity.

Clifford Geertz delineates that politicization

Arguably, culture, religion, language, and history only became politicized in the formation of nation-states after the second world war. National identity became a priority for states with the politicization of an ethnic group. The due process of politicization is a concept that is used by the government in an attempt to unify and modernize the current state. Harris exemplifies that national self-determination is just as important as individual identity as “the nation is considered an important source of personal identity” (p.