Views on Curtural Globalization

In the past, it was really hard to spread a culture one country to around the world. However, nowadays, we enjoy music, food, movies, and practice other religions from different cultures around the globe. This is all due to cultural globalization. Cultural globalization is spread of ideas and values via Internet, popular culture, international travel, and immigration. Immigrations are one of the best methods to spread a culture because the immigrants can practice their culture everyday and share with the natives. Unfortunately, however, there are three contending views of cultural globalization and I decided to examine the views in London and in Strasbourg.

The first view is that the racism always follows the immigrants. In London, there are many immigrants from the Caribbean and in Strasbourg, particularly from North Africa. Racism is the most the common topic that the immigrants have to face. According to professor John Western’s book, “A passage to England” he states, “by far the most common topic that sprang spontaneously to mind—mentioned by three-quarters of the immigrant generation and by two-thirds of the British-raised—was the topic of racism” (Western, 218, 1992). A lot of people have stereotypes that blacks in London are criminals and identified as being astonishingly law-abiding and even the police, who needs to be fair in enforcing the law, have stereotypes that the black are potential criminals (Western, 221, 1992). In the book, Western introduces the incidents where the whites start the fight with the blacks but the police treat the blacks as guilty of crimes although they were innocent. The police let the problematic whites go with no charge even though they were guilty of starting the fights (Western, 221, 1992...

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...The immigrants are discriminated by the natives and lose their sense of their identities and their home. It is unfortunate side the cultural globalization that the immigrants are losing their roots.

Works Cited

Western, John. "Has Racism Changed?" In A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 218-224.

Western, John. "Identity." In A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 237-248.

Western, John. "Home." In A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 256-262.

Western, John. "A Strasbourg Self-Portrait." In Cosmopolitan Europe a Strasbourg self-portrait. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2012. 187 - 201, 251 - 253.

The Economist, "Into The Melting Pot," February 8, 2014.