1. Essay on Cultural Globalization Globalisation and global flows of culture have redefined the processes in which we share and connect to ourselves, others, and the world. From its onset, globalisation had both proponents' and critics; some believed that it leads to a rich, hybrid global culture. Others saw it as the west versus the rest, an imprint of Western values and ideologies upon the world's rich and diverse cultures. In exploring global flows of culture, we can observe these major assumptions about globalisation as well as its changing nature. New, 'reverse' cultural flows have begun to emerge and question these traditional assumptions. The case study of Japan's 'pink globalisation' is one such reverse flow. Globalisation can take on many different shapes and...show more content... Appadurai terms these global flows as 'scapes', in which media, technology and ideology circulate broadly around the globe. The forces behind this new global imagination and its scapes are no longer nation states but global media corporations. Accelerated by the dawn of the internet and an opening up of transnational borders for economic trade in the 1990's, global media corporations have rapidly penetrated overseas markets with products aimed at consumers in what could be seen as a cultural ideology of consumerism. Cultural globalisation is no longer a case of Americanisation, but rather multiple, competing globalisations of global media corporations. Henry Jenkins observed the impact of these global media corporations which he described as 'corporate convergence.' In addition, we also see a 'grassroots convergence,' in which fans armed with new technologies capable of crossing borders (such as the internet) prescribe to new forms of popular culture. Jenkins observed this convergence coupling as 'pop cosmopolitanism.' This notion of pop cosmopolitanism explains the rise in popularity of a new, reverse flow, in which Japanese popular culture products are being disseminated across the globe. To demonstrate the active way in which media is appropriated by people ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

3. Globalisation Essay Globalisation – argumentative essay Globalisation is a really widespread topic. There are millions of definitions, opinions, organisations and perspectives because it concerns the whole world. This essay is a try to give some information and to explain my view of the issue. The starting point of globalisation is not defined yet, but most scientists think it started in the sixteenth century, when the first circumnavigation of the "Magellan" took place. Though, the first sentiment of a "united world" was formed by the establishment of the world time zones. At that time international communication started as well. Globalisation is an effect of capitalism – huge companies want to expand into the whole world for more profit – and...show more content... So he has to sell to a corporation which supports him with hybrid seeds where the plant blooms just one time. After that, new ones have to be replanted. The farmers get addicted to the company and has no other choice. One square meter of the rainforest costs 10 cent. Huge faces have been chopped for the plantation of soy for animal food in Europe. The farmers of these fields have to suffer from hunger and to drink polluted water. – These are just a few of the (of course true) approaches of the anti–capitalism organisations like ATTAC. Personally, I think that at the moments the negative effects of globalisation prevail. In an interview the CEO of Nestlé, the world's biggest food corporation, Peter Brabeck said that there are two opinions about the most important raw material – water. The first one (and people who think like that) is really extreme: it says that every human being should have free access to water. The other (and of course it is his own opinion) is that water is really precious and has to be sold. When I hear such statements I think that CEOs of multinational companies should change their opinions and strategies. The main idea of globalisation is not bad and there are already several advantages and positive effects. But only for people who live in the first world and get a job in a corporation. The aim for the next years should be to work out plans how to improve the situation of poor countries, how they can join the competition and how the

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