Cultural Globalization - Jaehyeon Seo

1. Summary

The article deals with globalization and its relationship with culture. In other words, it refers to cultural globalization, and the author first explains cultural globalization through each concept of "globalization" and "culture."

First, globalization is a network in which interconnectivity of economic, cultural, etc. develops rapidly, and is a multidimensional process. In the category of globalization, we should not give any advantage because the boundaries are ambiguous.

Secondly, culture is the context in which events can be interpreted meaningfully. Culture has the effect of globalization and is created and formed at the same time.

In other words, cultural globalization involves a 'reflection' in which so many individual actions are systemically integrated.

The article explains both utopian and dystopian interpretations of the consequences of globalization.

There is speculation that the consequences of globalization will eventually result in a single world. This assumption may seem plausible, as some aspects of globalization can be seen the effect of "integration."

But the connection of the world does not necessarily mean integration. The author judges that the basis of these thinkers is that they have nationalistic views. All we have to be careful about is defining Western culture as the culture of the world.

It is time to rethink the traditional meaning of culture. The concept of traditional culture implicitly linked 'territoriality or region' to the specificity of culture. But the concept of "deterritorialization" breaks down the framework of the traditional concept. In other words, deterritorialization comes to our daily lives with "connectivity" beyond the distance. Paradoxically, this deterritorialization could rather enhance the specificity of the area. The place where we are treading is all maintaining a high level of cultural originality despite the power of globalization.

So, how should cultural globalization be defined in globalization? By solving the problem of the formation of cultural identity, we can take the path of globalization. As I said earlier, those who threaten cultural identity tend to think of cultural identity as a meaning of 'own.' But identity is not a property. It is a structure. What they call "uniformity" is more reasonable to be used as a whole human being than to be confined within a country or region.

2. What was interesting/What did you learn

I first came across the concept of 'deterritorialization' in this article. Reading the text, I was also interested in the fact that the current cultural globalization is quite Western. So, naturally, if the current cultural globalization is Westernistic, we have come to think about where we should go. The 'identity of culture' from the perspective of 'deterritorialization' and 'global citizenship,' which was presented as the answer to the article, allowed me to see the world in a wider variety of ways.

3. Discussion point

Just as last year's keyword was 'fake news,' what do you think is the keyword for future globalization? I'd like to talk to you about this.

I think the 'world citizen' ritual that we are all the same human beings and the 'pluralism' that recognizes that there can be various cultures in the world are important people's consciousness in future globalization.