How Does Globalization Affect Cultural Diversity

INTRODUCTION

Globalization suggests the foundational of nationalistic perspectives to a wider platform of interdependency of global countries with free transmission of capital, goods, and services athwart national boundaries. Globalization has its positive and negative effects on culture. This essay will analyse the ways in which globalisation may be affecting cultural diversity and ways in which it is instrumental to cultural diversity. It will also examine what globalisation is now and what it was meant to be. Culture is

WESTERN BELIEVES OF GLOBALIZATION

As globalisation is entailed at promoting primarily the economic growth and development of the globe, one may then question how it then diminishes cultural diversity. Because there is very

Culturally in Africa when a person is sick we would rely on traditional healers which would make use unique but that has not the most favoured method after the coming of western medicine practises. However, in as much as it diminishes culture in this context it also brought about good in the sense that some diseases that could not be cured traditionally can now be cured with western medicine. Globalization is affecting all the five continents and the relationships between governments of the countries within them. Globalization over the years has promoted a lot of foreign investments in developing countries especially. This heavily vehicle the accelerated growth of information technologies that later promoted more of globalization as people could now travel to places they couldn’t before and be able to communication with other people across the world without actually going there physically. Globalization may be promoting more international trade however, it also climaxes the risks of instability, marginalization and diminishing of culture. According to Mohamed Daous, globalization in Africa has aggravated poverty and incumbered development in the sense that there some less developed countries in Africa have less than two percent share of global trade and very small fraction of foreign investments

Not being in position of admittance to technologies that are contemporary in the teaching space, collective with an education system vehicled towards the leading society can be a toxic combination for cultures. However, one may argue to say culture is not totally diminished as there are centres like the Global media which give various cultures a platform for them to express their stories and distinction. There are platforms like the Global mecca where self representation for various cultures is encountered. Media can be used to sustain culture in various ways. “Instead of destroying some cultures, as others predicted, mass media assists in the revitalizing and restoring of cultural preservation of nations.” (Ginsburg, 2002). One may also argue to say globalisation preserves culture through the international trade of local traditional products therefore promoting exposure of indigenous cultures on a global