The technological transformations of our own post-industrial age push forward relentlessly, asking not why, but only how and when: machines take the place of workers; globalization rewards and punishes, creating vast economic disparity; new media bring the suffering of others around the world into our homes; knowledge is exploding, while wisdom lags way behind.
The article looks at two possible directions of cultural identity changes taking place in the era of globalization, analyzing the underlying forces and motivation behind certain shifts in linguistic and cultural behavior.
By the end of the year, this massive city of steel at the edge of the Red Sea will take its place as a cog of globalization: plastics produced here will be used to make televisions in Japan, cellphones in China and thousands of other products to be sold in the United States and Europe.
The way that Trump talks about America is the way that everyone talks about the Midwest as a victim of globalization, a place that is getting left behind, a people who have been played for suckers.
He, too, has taken advantage of globalization to place factories around the world, with those heavily dependent on hand labor established in low-wage countries while the more automated plants operate in wealthier countries like the United States, Europe and Singapore.
"I'm a pro-European, I defended constantly during this election the European idea and European policies because I believe it's extremely important for French people and for the place of our country in globalization," he told the BBC.
"Brooklynization," after all, represents a serious attempt at repudiation: of Manhattan, of course, whose nosebleed real estate prices pushed the creative class out to Brooklyn in the first place; but also of the logic of globalization, and its elevation of an international elite with no ostensible connection to either specific places or the making of physical things.
The analyses described place considerable emphasis on the impact of globalization, the rise of information and computer technology (ICT) and changing political systems and ideologies on both business development and process, and urbanization.
Rezende (2013) places Terrorism as a probable result of globalization – it denotes cultural, ideological, political differences and social exclusion (people who faces prejudice and disrespect feel like they were less important).
While art fairs are an unequivocal symptom of globalization, the specifics of place and culture served as more than decorative backdrops here.
Classical music in Togo is a legacy of an entirely different wave of globalization, one that took place more than a century ago: European colonialism.
