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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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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Individuals are subject to cultural influences but may reject or embrace these new ideas based on interactions with others in society or reject the existing status quo. Culture is not forced upon peop...
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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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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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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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While the movement of people and the exchange of ideas is not new, the spread of network-based interconnectivity that has developed following the growth of the Internet has increased the pace at which...
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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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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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Perraton et al. (1997, p. 260) investigated claims of hyper globalisation using production and consumption figures in an economic study. The comparison between the hyper globalisation and sceptical ap...
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While globalisation leads to the sharing and exchange of ideas, it does not necessarily lead to what many have termed homogenisation. As demonstrated in this article, exchanging ideas leads to radical...
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