Globalization and Cultural Change

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This paper explains that globalization is the most fundamental of all forces of cultural change and is debated in much the same way that it has always been debated, isolationism vs. internationalism. The author points out that, regardless of whether globalization is more positive or more negative for any given population, its extreme growth will have cultural effects of which most people would never even dream. The paper stresses that one fundamental change in the world scene has been the foundational nature of law, which more closely reflects international ideals and not necessarily those of the nation introducing them.

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"Another interesting historical example of cultural change associated with globalization is the Orientalism movement resulting from European travel and return from the Islamic world. Orientalism, largely a homogenized, romanticized and poorly interpreted version of the cultural reality within a very diverse region, was so pervasive that entire regions changed their production output to meet the demands of the Western countries for Oriental goods. It also can be said that, often times, the authentic and fundamental arts, crafts and trades changed their output not to meet actual demand for profit but to meet the stereotyped European ideals of the cultural foundation."

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