The Changes to Cultural Identity in a Global World
Date: 2022-12-05
Source: https://craigwright.net/blog/academics/the-changes-to-cultural-identity-in-a-global-world
Increased global flows of people and things impact cultural identity and change how societies interact. In ethnographic terms, this does not lead to hyper globalisation or homogenisation as some have claimed but rather creates several forces that allow for competition between different local groups.
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While many brands such as McDonald’s and other consumer goods have become a homogenous staple found in the majority of countries around the world, this also downplays the differences between the produ...
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The claim that the world is undergoing a fundamentally new process where globalisation has accelerated, transforming human life in a manner that cannot be predicted, leading to an ultimate singularity...
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While globalisation may be argued to promote a concept of cosmopolitan identity, the exposure to differences also create localised cultural identities and enforce these by cementing ideas that exist a...
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Globalisation has changed the movement and global flows of people and things across nations and continents. Some who suggest that globalisation has gone too far and seek to reverse the tide of human m...
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The enlightenment concept of rationality has been treated negatively in recent times (Pinker, 2018). The post-modern reintroduction of identity politics places collective groups above the individual. ...
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Angelone (2019) presents a novel argument that the growing virtualisation and the creation of online forums produce new ethnographies based on virtual membership and groups. However, this post-positiv...
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As Roudometof (2015) demonstrates in an analysis of Salazar, the concept of a “glocal ethnography” creates a model that is different from the “nested hierarchy that is the characteristic of global eth...
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As Deng (2005) discusses, local ethnographic identity provides people with a foundation and answer to the questions “Who am I?”, “What is my purpose?”, “What is most important to me?” and “How should ...
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Lewellen (2002, p. 9) argues that while many in the media claim that the homogenisation of culture is a criterion of globalisation, the explosive increase in group and ethnic politics and local organi...
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Globalisation and the resulting embracing of local cultures is also not a new trend. For example, the integration of Scottish dress, including the kilt, was used to create a false narrative of a natio...
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