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In this article, the writer discusses that in order to determine whether cultural globalization means cultural homogenization, it is necessary to examine some of the processes that contribute to the understanding of globalization as Americanization or Westernization. The writer focuses on economic globalization and discusses the correlation between economic influence and cultural influence.

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"One of these processes is Economic Globalization, for it is the driving force behind the expansion of Western and American culture throughout most of the world. This 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 investment and consumer products."

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