What is the relation between culture and globalization?

 Now you can see anywhere in the global culture. Global language, food, lifestyle, leisure, and so on exist everywhere. They have positive relationship each other, but they also have negative relationship each other.

 First, positive relation. Nowadays, cultural exchanges are increasing between state and nation. They can understand each other, so mutual understanding increases. The wider mutual understanding is, the more various culture is. Because culture can fusion. This happening cause mitigation of heterogeneity and composition of the consensus. Therefore, dissension between nation and nation decreases and the intersection occurs between peoples. Soon, it raises the global integration. Diversity. And people who can accept diversity. I think it is important factor between globalization and culture.

It is a K-POP Concert. The concert held open to many country, Sometimes, more than 15,000 k-pop fans in the U.S. enjoyed this concert. It showed k-pop's growing popularity overseas.

 Second, negative relation. The global integration have destructive nature. The cultural acceptance is a good thing. But the unconditional acceptance can destroy indigenous culture. Tradition can easily collapse. People want new, western, and unique things. So they quickly forgot their own things. This is bad situation. This is a result of absorbing other cultures without filtration. It can bring destruction of previously inherent basic order of the state and nation. So, when people accept the global culture, they should be careful and avoid the unconditional acceptance.

People enjoyed fatty food that came from Western country. But these foods can injure our health and become more obese. 

I think global cultures are a double-edged sword. But we can't remove them. We have no choice but to accept globalization of culture. We have to correct about unconditional acceptance and do not forget our own culture. This is a solution about globalization's problem. What do you think?

What is the relation between globalization and culture ?

  Globalization is the increasing intermixing between countries throughout the world. This is happening in many diferent ways. Like economic relations, business relations, political relations. But also it's happening at more personal individual levels more and more with easy and available information sharing like youtube or even travel.

 

  Although there is increased interdependency and intermixing between societies throughout the world, not all these societies value and believe the same thing. Their culture is completely different. This can create tensions between countries that may be reliant on each other economically, or trying to maintain some kind of political peace. Also a lot of criticisms of globalization are that it actually pertains to global westernization which means that American or Western European beliefs and values are being the most weigh in the balance between cultures.

extra blogging-Internet

Q1.Can we think of some products or industries that have been disrupted by internet?

A1. As we can see the graph below, people are recieve news from TV or Internet. And internet supply grows continually. So paper news production disrupted.

<↑ the way people recieve news>

 

Q2. How many Korean have gaming consol?

 

A2. I can't find numer of people accurately, but most Korean people used to Internet game. (yellow graph)

second is mobile game(blue graph).  And  statics from 'Korea Creative Contents Agency' , Korean game user have console game only 15.8%. From these, we can know  Korean don't using console game much.

 





What is the relation between culture and globalization?

 First, globalization make a fusion of cultures. Today, the contact of many cultures made a big impact. If we do not have a information technology and trasportation system, this situation is impossible. Not only human and resources, but also a information technology and trasportation system  are conveying culture and ideal now.
 Due to Globalization, there are many emigrations and imigrations. For example, Immigrants from Asia settled down America and they married American. but they didn't throw away their culture. So Asian culture and American culture are in harmony. after all , their children has a blending of cultures.
 Second, globalization can make a culture expand over the surrounding country. Long time ago, it is hard to inform our culture. In globalization, we can spread our culture easily. Thanks to UTUBE, Psy can be a world famous star. and thanks to psy, Korean drinking culture and food Culture spread a world quickly.
 Finally, The global culture  is local culture. In globalization, local cultures are primarily meant to give the identity.It will not be a global culture when all of societies have a same culture, Point is that global culture should be recognized and reflected in the uniqueness of the country and the remediation of each society.

 So, Globalization and culture may be embodied as an economic and cultural dependency and actively accepting liberal, democratic, egalitarian and universal human enlightenment.

What is the relation between culture and globalization?

 Culture is that the behavior of the people that have been accumulated from the past appears in unique figure of each region or country. Culture becomes symbol of the country, for example symbol of Korea are Hangul(Korean alphabet), Hanbok(Korean traditional clothes), Makgeolli , psy, K-pop etc. And symbols can be nonmaterial. For example Korea’s founding principle is humanitarianism. The major elements of culture are values, beliefs, and norms.

 First, ‘Value’ are the most high level’s moral principle. Secondly, ‘Belief’ are agreement about proper behaviors in particular situation. And finally, ‘Norms’ are real behaviors. Norms are different each country. But values are similar to each country. All cultures contain values.

 Advances in science and technology have helped backdrop of globalization. They also helped communication between countries as well as within one country. International organizations was founded, they discuss the problem of environment, war, hunger and disease. Globalization is a multidimensional phenomenon that complexly occurs in the economy, politics, and culture in combination.

 Western society becomes economically powerful nations, and other countries has been trying to follow their appearance. A society having own unique culture is influenced by western society. And many things such as diet, leisure, economy, and education are changed from the traditional lifestyle to the west style. (Westernization) If these phenomenons continue to persist, cultural assimilation can be happen. cultural assimilation is that their own unique culture is lose by a dominant cultural group. Because 'culture' is related to the real behavior of people, historically, the ruling class had used culture in order to dominate the controlled class. (during the period of Japanese colonial rule, force to use japanese instead of hangul. Also Japan aggressively push Koreans to assimilate to Japanese culture under ‘the Naeseon Ilche’ or 'Korea and Japan are One' policy.)

 Our body is in a country but we can go around the world through smart phone or internet. The more Globalization progresses, the boundaries between countries become blurry. Actually in around, we can often see people who married foreigner and then are living in foreign country. (TV program ‘Love In Asia’ is about multi-cultural family. and ‘Non-Summit’비정상회담 is a talk show with eleven non-Korean men, living in Korea.)

 The more Globalization progresses, there is concern about some culture will be disappear. But in my thought, to disappear a culture is not easy. If some people follow the western culture, while some people also exist trying to defend our culture. Therefore, it is important to respect and understand the culture of each country.

What I have thought about Clay Shirky Cognitive Surplus

  Accessing to the internet has spread we have become connected to each other in ways. We can now produce, learn, connect, share, and shop online. This connection has freed us from simply consuming contents to being able to participate and contribute to it in larger groups. Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus is about how and why we can put to better use our collected free time by connecting and participating in new ways for the public goods.

 

 I want to mention that we are becoming one and another’s infrastructure. As a group becomes larger, things which were previously unlike can become likely. For example, in city it’s possible that at any time, someone will want to buy a slice of pizza. As a result, pizza companies can afford to make pizzas in advance and sell them by the slice, and is confident that there will be demand for them. On the other hand, in a rural area the demand for pizza slices is very low. This things happen when individual needs which can only shows as a crowd grows and in larger crowds it’s more likely that someone somewhere in the group will be able to meet those needs. The internet of course ables us to form much larger and diverse crowds never before. So we can rely on a wider group of people. Both online and offline to meet our various needs.

 

 So, I've thought about we are becoming each others infrastructure. These days, we can see and hear real time updates from those who are on the ground, living it minute by minute. With our mobile phones and computers we can share with millions of people what’s going on around them as it happens.

Cognitive Surplus

 I saw a 'TED' speech about Cognitive Surplus. In modern society, a couch potato is not only consumption of leisure time because computer and internet have propagated rapidly. We can spend our leisure time by using the computer and internet. But people have not only egoistic mind but also have altruistic mind. So they produce something and share that with others. And the 'something' is cognitive surplus.

 Everyone has talent and time to spare. I think cognitive surplus was made to talent, time to spare and technology. (Technology means development like an internet.) If so, cognitive surplus exist to me! I have three factors of cognitive surplus. For example, I can treat photoshop program of Adobe. And if I made Peter professor's introduction poster, that would be a cognitive surplus like a lol cat picture.

 Many people create value with cognitive surplus, but I think it is very small parts of internet users. There are small in number of positive created value in comparison with internet users. How can we promote people who have talent, time to spare, and technology to produce cognitive surplus?

After watching Shirky's speech...

At first, I was surprised at the concept of 'Cognitive Surplus'.

I never thought about that kind of thing.

 

Cognitive surplus is very simple but it is very important. I agree with his opinion.

We can change the world through this way.

SNS, one kind of new media is typical example.

As I said in last class if I lost important thing, we could ask SNS such as facebook for help. Than many people who had seen your helping message will do what they can for you.

 

The scene that a nursery's rule was broken by extra change was strongly impressed on my memory. Because I thought opposite result:-)

And when Shirky said the difference between to practice and not so, I was very sympathetic.

 

All human beings have selfishness and altruism.

We should try to altruistic in order to contribute to the growth.

How about you? can you agree my opinion?