The effect of Globalization in coming years, will be very profound. Most of the subcultures and languages spoken by small group of people, will be wiped out for ever within a short span. We have a glaring example in Latin America, where in less than five hundred years the whole culture, language and ethnicity got changed for ever. Latin American people are now a complete soup and mixture of natives, spanish and African ancestory due to mass migration. There are hardly any native people left in Latin America and so is true in North America. The various languages spoken by native people have all but disappeared. Those, like me, who are proud of their roots, are really concerned since I hail from a minority group. I invite people for a healthy discussion on this topic.
Please enunciate essential characterisics of globalization for us to comment on its impacts? Most importantly, when did globalization start...in 20th Century or when society in Europe made a transition from agrarian phase into an industrial phase?
Moreover, I think native cultures of America had been subdued and exterminated long before the era of globalization due to White man's superiority in military technology and small populations of the native people...another factor was the isolation of North America, South America, Newziland, and Australia from the rest of the world which gave the White man the favorable opportunity to physically eliminate or make politicall/militarily impotent the indegenous people...
The White Aparthieds couldn't do to South Africans what their fellows in Autralia did to aborginals (native Australians)...Similarly, they colonized Asia and Africa but couldn't physically exterminate the colonized people because these native people were at an advanced level of social development (had mostly entered feudal phase) , were strong demographically, and inhabited regions that were not isolated...
Currently, physical extermination is very difficult...however, the globalization of economy and the global reach of media would cause the extermination of indegenous cultures especially those with small populations, poor, and not yet developed (in the sense of artistic achievements).