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Globalization and Culture, 2002.
Analyzes three of the main arguments regarding the impact of globalization on local cultures.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 76.95
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The debate over the phenomenon of globalization with respect to culture is comprised of a number of different arguments and perspectives. This paper will examine three of these arguments: (1) globalization of culture as technological imperialism; (2) globalization represents the "Americanization" of local cultures; and (3) globalization is inevitable.
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Globalization and Culture, 2007.
This paper examines globalization and the influences cultures have on each other.
2,329 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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The paper illustrates how the impact of globalization on individual cultures is most apparent at the personal level of each nation's citizens and is becoming more visible with the globalization of business. The paper describes how cultures impact and are constantly being impacted by globalization. The paper emphasizes the reciprocal effects of one culture on another. The paper illustrates its thesis through case studies, empirical evidence, secondary research and primary research from interviews with people who attempted to assimilate into cultures radically different than their own.
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Westernization in India: Call Center Training in Bangalore
Cultural Bias with a Sense of Urgency: Meet Silvio Napoli
Key Findings on Globalization and Culture
Conclusion
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"The fact that businesses are now more global than ever is acting as a catalyst to push people together from widely varying cultures in the pursuit of business strategies and initiatives. To claim, however, that the globalization of business is forcing a westernization of the world's less prosperous nations is erroneous; in fact, the opposite is occurring. Workers in these third world nations want the same level of personalized, tailored products and services as they see in the world's wealthiest nations, only tailored to their religious and cultural beliefs, which are quite different from westernized nations."
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Globalization and Culture, 2007.
This paper explores the impact of globalization on culture assimilation.
2,734 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 58.95
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The paper attempts to analyze the implications of the Internet on the individual lives of people globally and the resulting impact on corporations. The paper explains that since businesses of all sizes and from all industries are striving to be more global than ever, this pushes individuals and cultures together in the pursuit of business strategies and initiatives. The paper explores globalization in Indian call centers and how the culture of the Schindler Elevator Company from Switzerland clashes with Indian ideas. The paper shows how westernization influences widely divergent cultures just as much as westernized nations fail in their attempts to accomplish business strategies in widely divergent cultures.
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Globalization of Business Forces an Entirely New Relationship Dynamic
Globalization in Indian Call Centers: Training to Talk Like a Westerner
Schindler's Swiss Precision Meets Indian Chaos: Exploring Cultural Bias
Key Findings on Globalization and Culture
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"The impact of the Internet on globalization is visible from the pervasiveness and visibility of brands globally to changes in the everyday lives of members of different cultures around the world. Globalization, while discussed as a business strategy, actually affects individuals far more often and with greater consequences than corporations. It could also be said that the collective experiences of individuals are what a corporation experiences from the context of globalization at a more macro socioeconomic level."
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Globalization and Local Culture, 2006.
This paper analyzes the phenomenon of globalization and its effect on various local cultures worldwide.
1,729 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 14 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper defines globalization as the name given to the growing connection and dependence experienced by most countries, societies and local cultures in regards to economy, education and technology. The writer of this paper questions whether or not certain cultures should decide to remain individual societies in the face of world globalization. The writer discusses the effects of globalization to the very existence of culture. This paper examines culture and globalization from an anthropological view point while detailing its impact on the village of Ladakh in northern India. The writer contends that the people of Ladakh moved away to the larger cities for better paying jobs while turning away from their village and their sense or responsibility to the community and the land.
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Introduction
Definitions and Background
Hopes and Fears
Integrating Cultures
Trade
Language Change
Conclusion
References Cited
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"The way traditional lands are used is not the only change globalisation brings. Just as the form of change varies, so do the reactions by individual cultures. The way they react is determined by their cultural way of dealing with problems (Cobb 2005:563-574). These different reactions show part of the diversity among differing peoples around the globe. Some cultures choose to incorporate or adapt to forced change. The Trobriand islanders are an excellent example. The British missionaries frowned on the openly sexual and erotic celebrations of the Trobriand people at the conclusion of the yam harvest (Haviland et al. 2006:688). The ethnocentric reaction of the British missionaries was to introduce the game of cricket to replace the traditional celebrations (Haviland et al. 2006:688). Rather than fighting the change or accepting it completely, the Trobriand people incorporated the game into their celebrations and made it uniquely their own (Haviland et al. 2006:689). In this case the forced change did not replace the old ways, but rather, was absorbed into a new syncretic celebration."
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Globalization and Culture, 2002.
Discusses globalization and the move towards the assessing business environments according to culture.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper shall investigate how the cultural environment of business has altered business practices in the face of increasing globalization.
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Globalization and Culture, 2004.
An analysis of the hip-hop culture, its origins and the effect globalization has on it.
1,254 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper discusses the hip-hop culture that originated in the United States in response to the oppression of African-Americans. This paper explains that this art form is therefore deeply integrated with the social consciousness from which it arose. The paper examines how other cultures adopted this art form and then illustrates the subsequent implications.
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"On the surface, there are four physical aspects that can be attributed to hip-hop as a culture. These include deejaying, breakdancing, graffiti and rhyming. These, according to, Richardson, are not the heart of the culture. Instead, the central message is the platform from which the technical, teachable aspects arise. The message relates directly to the struggle, the poverty, the oppression and the hardship suffered by the African Americans who were refused the rights of other Americans as a result of their skin color. This is a very specific group of people who created a specific culture. The technical aspects merely exist as an outlet for a specific kind of creativity."
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Globalization and Culture, 2007.
This paper looks at different cultures that are brought together due to globalization.
1,437 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that commerce and business are pushing people from different cultures together much more rapidly on a global scale than has ever been true in the past, and this is just accentuating culture shock. Throughout this assessment, two contrasting examples are provided. The writer first discusses Indian call center employees learning Western dialects and diction to be more accepted. Then the writer examines the story of Silvio Napoli and looks at his many challenges in trying to fit into the Indian approach to doing business. The writer notes these two examples are very topical given the current focus on India. Finally, lessons learned and a short series of observations are provided.
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"Taking from example one of the many stories in The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman notes that call center employees in India are taking voice training and diction courses to deliberately sound more westernized to inbound callers from the U.S., U.K., Canada and other English-speaking nations. Experiences of call center representatives who have gone through this training indicate that higher levels of customer satisfaction are achieved and less derogatory comments made about outsourcing in general occur when callers think they are more westernized. Just one of many examples of the dynamics of the Indian culture being influenced by western values and cultural norms, the ongoing training of Indians to sound more like westerners casts an unflattering light on the entire aspect of globalization. The elimination of regional differences in culture to "fit in" globally also highlights how strong ethnocentric behavior influences others, even half a world away, in a matter of minutes on a telephone call. This reaction to the world shrinking in terms of who each of us interact with every day to get things done personally and professionally is driving changes in behavior no government, organization or company can dictate."
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Globalization and Culture, 2004.
This paper looks at the concept of globalization with respect to the diverse cultures of the world.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, £ 102.95
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The writer of this essay provides an exploration of the perspectives of opponents and proponents of globalization, with respect to its impact on the world's diverse cultures. The writer examines multi-national enterprises. Liberalization of trade is discussed. The writer also looks at the rise of democratic governments. In this paper, the writer also discusses the matter of interdependency.
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"A number of trends and developments have paved the way for globalization, the homogenization of the world's cultures into a global marketplace of trade. As Legrain maintains the beauty of globalization is that it can free people from the tyranny of geography. Leading the way in the move toward globalization are those structures known as multi-national enterprises. The increasing spread of democratic governments, liberalization of trade, liberal neo-economic reforms, the rise of technology and the emergence of a truly global market for goods
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Globalization and Culture, 2005.
An analysis of the work of Gray on the subject of globalization.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 25.95
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This essay examines the following statement by Gray (1998): "Globalization is shorthand for the cultural changes that follow when societies become linked with, and in varying measures dependent on, world markets. The advent of modern information and communication technologies has meant that cultural lives are more deeply influenced than ever before". The essay focuses on how this plays out, in particular at the local level and in non-Western cultures.
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"The developments in communication techniques through history often resulted in the cultural changes in societies. The exchanges of ideas, technologies and goods have always been undemanding within small and/or neighboring communes."
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Processes of Globalization and Shared Global Culture, 2005.
A discussion on whether the processes of globalization are producing a shared global culture.
2,028 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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The paper states that it is not complicated to find some globalized places such as airline terminals, international hotels or CNN business news revealing the effects of globalization and its repercussions on our understanding of culture in the modern world. The paper relates that through the growing of global interconnections and the processes of ideas and global goods crossing national borders, cultures fuse across the globe. The paper also discusses the presence of English as an international language, and a homogenization of culture. The paper confirms that, culture is a set of values and practices characterized by its particularity, which nevertheless needs universal criteria as a reference to justify this particularity. It is also crucial to define culture as an "encompassing" concept and to keep in mind that it is difficult to know what is cultural.
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"In addition, a shared global culture is also relevant as a global dissemination of an American or Western culture. Indeed the processes of globalization are providing fuel for a cultural imperialism, that is to say a global culture liable to be a hegemonic culture. Thus the assertion of a shared global culture seems to be linked to what Friedman describes as "the increasing hegemony of particular central cultures, the diffusion of American values, consumers goods and lifestyles" (Friedman, 1994: 195). The diffusion of dominant standard icons and references such as MacDonald's, Coca-Cola leads to think about an obvious Americanization. In a word, cultures are both confronted by a global dominance of the western culture and by the practices of global capitalism. The result is probably a decrease of cultural differences: a process which undeniably worked to the advantage of the USA and others Western nations. A striking example of this tendency of cultural imperialism is the United Nations Educations Scientific and Cultural Organization's call for a "new world information and communication order" and its politics on global culture."
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Globalization and Cross-Cultural Communications, 2004.
An essay looking at the degree to which globalization is an advantage and a disadvantage in developing cross-cultural awareness.
2,293 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This essay examines the advantages and disadvantages in communication across cultures in light of a globalizing world. Three areas in particular are focused upon: News and internet, film and documentaries and trade and business.
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"Globalization is the quintessential 'buzzword' of the times. Politicians speak at length about it, academic journals are filled with material on it, and it seems as though a new book is published daily dealing with its subject matter. Terms such as the 'global village,' 'global governance' and 'global transformations' have all been coined in the past few decades in an attempt to make sense of and to further explain the phenomenon of globalization. With the proliferation of capitalism since the Cold War, an influx of multi-national corporations and their products into areas never before reached, and technological advancements increasing at a breakneck speed, there is not a single corner of the world that is left untouched or uninfluenced by the 'Western' world."
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Globalisation and Local Cultures, 2003.
A discussion on why globalisation will not make local cultures disappear.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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Through the culmination of evidence and case studies, this paper argues that local cultures around the world are not expected to disappear with increasing globalisation. The crux of the paper centres on the theory that culture is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon and it uses this reasoning to explain why local cultures are more likely not to lose all aspects of their traditions. It also discusses several theories on cultural change and how these relate to the force of increasing globalisation. The paper contends that we are more likely to see globalised local culture rather than global culture, therefore demonstrating the implausibility in the notion that local culture is likely to disappear.
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"For the Gapun people, we find globalisation forcing the hybrid language Tok Pisin into becoming the spoken vernacular for the next generation. Tok Pisin or Pidgin English is essentially how most Papua New Guinean communities have collectively interpreted and applied the English language to their own culture. In Tajikistan, there are many who hold on to socialist ideology while still embracing a traditional Islamic code of behaviour (Rashid 1995). Tomlinson (1999) argues, however, that hybridisation of culture is not a new phenomenon. So if local cultures have always been hybrid, what is the effect of globalisation on them?"
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Cultural Globalization, 2007.
This paper explores the process of globalization as Americanization or Westernization to determine whether cultural globalization means cultural homogenization.
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper explains that the correlation between economic influence and cultural influence is manifested in the spread of American and Western culture into national economies increasingly dependent upon American and Western economic investments and consumer products. The author points out that one of the most troubling consequences of cultural globalization is its political impact in the form of increasing fragility throughout the Third World. The paper stresses that, if there is ever to be a global society, the basis of such a society is likely to be Western socio-political culture, which can lead to a backlash from non-Western cultures.
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"Fragile, failing, and failed states such as Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and Somalia present the United Nations and other international organizations with a host of problems, including civil wars, regional instability, famine, terrorism, and overpopulation.
Disintegrating Third World states not only destabilize the regions they are in, but also destabilize the entire international community as well. They pose endless problems for Western policy makers because they are sources of international controversy and division, compel other nations to take sides in various economic, political, and religious disputes..."
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The Influence of American Culture on Globalization, 2002.
A detailed look at how America impacted the development of globalization.
2,935 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 11 sources, £ 61.95
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This report looks at the impact of American culture on the development and advancement of globalization. The author first examines the history of Americanization during the 20th Century and then provides an extended look at several components of the American culture that are exported on a global scale, including technology, telecommunications, economics, goods and services, language, media, entertainment, and religion. In addition, this report examines how these have impacted countries such as: Western Europe, Japan and Canada.
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"For centuries, monarchs, generals, explorers, and financiers have been creating an increasingly interdependent global economy. In today?s modern age, unprecedented advances in communications, transportation, and computer technology have given new impetus to the globalization process. As the economies and cultures of the world become integrated into the whole of the global information age, the concept and reality of globalization becomes more complex and far-reaching. One thing is for sure; globalization is challenging existing social identities across the planet in many important ways. A prime example of this process can be found in the influence that American culture is having in the modern world."
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