GLOBALISATION AND INCREASED CULTURAL CONTACT WILL LEAD TO A HOMOGENISATION OF CULTURES.

It is often claimed that globalisation and increased cultural contact will lead to a homogenisation of cultures.

It is often claimed that globalisation and increased cultural contact will lead to a homogenisation of cultures.

Introduction

Globalization continues to be, without doubt, the great issue of our times. This is not surprising, since almost all (if not all) areas of endeavor and human reason: technological advances, poverty, war, wealth, communication, ideas and, of course, the economy, appear not only in stone and constitutive part of the globalization process, but also be the direct or indirect result of it. As if it were a complicated gear, globalization and its components that call for each one to the other.

But above all, what is globalization? Answering this question is, of course, a less rewarding companies that we can conceive. However, and despite what you may be elusive concept of "globalization", everybody is able to give an example of it. For some, globalization is evident in the unprecedented mobility of which have the money and consumer goods. For others it is a paradigmatic example of globalization, the ability of any person anywhere in the world to be able to communicate in real time (perhaps through the Internet) to the antipodes. Still others see cultural homogenization (also called cultural colonialism) a clear manifestation of the globalization process. Now, if globalization is (among other things) cultural homogenization, then we're seeing with the long-standing process? Without doubt, it suffices here to cite the adoption of the Latin alphabet for much of the European peoples. Cultural globalization is a phenomenon that was born with humanity and that has increased more than since the dawn of that. But if globalization is a process that has been developed over time, then the true sign of the times in which we live, the true meaning of globalization is the new awareness that there is globalization.

While cultural diversity has been a constant throughout human history, now appears associated with a number of phenomena such as identity politics, the process of globalization. As stated in the latest Human Development Report (2004), in very different contexts around the world human groups return to mobilize around old grievances ethnic, religious, racial or cultural demands on the one hand, recognition and appreciation of their identity, and other social justice. This determines that, at both national and international diversity is situated in the center of a series of discussions on topics such as social cohesion, sustainable development, intergroup relations, or the processes of oppression. The importance of these issues for peaceful coexistence, justice and solidarity, and the presence of movements that threaten cultural freedom, has been generating in the international community more sensitive about respect for diversity, tolerance and dialogue.

Ironically, today's problems related to globalization arising from a lack of greater homogeneity. A good example of this in the conversations that have been holding with respect to the FTAA, which criticizes the double standards of some ...