Writing And Information Literacy Lesson: Globalization And Its Impact On Personal Identity

Last week the topic of our Writing And Information Literacy lesson was Globalization And Its Impact on Personal Identity. Everyone, ranging with instructor and ending with students, was mulling over and debating on the question whether globalized world is procreation or a threat for personal identity. Unfortunately, even 75 minutes were not enough to find an exact answer, however, we came to a common consensus that globalization proliferates rather than destroys identities. Again, a question appears in our minds: To what extent does it escalate a sense of self and to what extent does it shrink it? In the past, globalization had usually been seen more or less as economical, political, and technological process. Years pass, it became obvious

This globality opens in front of us the world with more expanded horizons in which we can improve our identity by developing some of the main factors like education, religion, culture and society that shape us into people we become throughout the life. Globalization is a double-edged sword. It has already offered such benefit as increase in communication between individuals and societies leading to increase of cross-cultural knowledge; at the same time, this benefit is accompanied by social cost such as fade of cultural identity. Globalization has made a way for free communication between people from diverse origins around the globe. “We must use our shared interests and values to compliment and transform each other’s growth of identity.”(Kathleen Stephens, 2007) So-called cross-cultural communication creates a continuous transfer of cultural information, allows the open dissemination of culture interests like traditions, customs, h. e. chalk talk known in one country may sometimes intersperse across boundaries. Consequently, as a complement to the Kathleen Stephens’s quote, it can be said that besides spread of

There is one expression that claims: “Any trip is great as long as you are there. When you are no longer there, it is not great because it stops being.” The same happens with globalization: As long as people stay themselves and do not let other nations wipe away their national, traditional, cultural, and personal values, globalized world will not lead people’s identity to a threat, and vice versa, if individuals forget their real essence, all bright sides of globalization may turn into dark shadows trying to blur our real being. All things considered, globalization both proliferates and destroys one’s identity: Its proliferation presents an increase in communication between people from different nations, which in its turn means dissemination of knowledge and experience of different cultures and traditions that blurs boundaries among nations; destructive side of globalization is the risk of loss of individual cultures and creation of a global culture. In words of one syllable, cultural identity is discovered to be something fragile that needs to be preserved and protected. It is something that can be lost that is why the best thing that each of nation can do is to snatch at a