the global village idea and why?
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dushi
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** first of all, wat is that**
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where people think that people from diff creeds, cultures, religions, diff parts of the world, can and should live like a one big community.
so if you were to be in any country and you were to go to another one, things wont be much diff. in social set up, in economics, in living and so on and so forth.
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dushi
I do believe in this idea (ofcourse exceptions are there).
when we say Global Village (or globalization), it means standardization which is good interms of technology, sharing information, sharing culture (ofcourse within boundries) etc etc - the list goes on.
Communication standards get higher. Nations become closer.
It surely helps poor nations learning and taking benefit.
I fully agree with it when it comes to standarized products and services. Ofcourse, it makes things easier for the companies and users.
It is also said that "Americanization" is another term for it which makes sense if observe todays lifestyle.
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Global city...there are ghettos everywhere...there are certain affluent parts of town...and the sheriffs only look after their own.
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i don't believe the global village theory ..
more we get closer .. more we repel each other
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merging of eastern oriental, indian, middle-eastern, african & european cultures
has to be brought about, without fading the original cultures.
for instance, right now, dubai wants to make a 'dubai-land' - complete with more hotels, posh residential communities, office space, &theme parks
commerce issues have good prospects due to globalization, but we must very well be miindful of the environmental and social aspects, as well.
learning about other cultures, adapting good things from them is great, but again, without dissolving the original ones.
dushi
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i do.
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Well I've always said this, there'll come a time when language and region alone will define nationality/ethnicity (not even race as all of us will be mongrels in the future due to individuals migrating to other countries and embracing the local language).
Other aspects of culture are universal property, thanks to tech and communication everyone will live a cosmopolitan culture without relating it to any particular part of the world, we already do to some extent I mean most of us dress the same (so called 'european' attire is not european, it is actually universal), we eat the same foods (we have pizza or sushi more times a week than curry or pulow), modern architecture and interior design is the same (our house in Pakistan is just like a Spanish villa), we now have the same genres of music in all languages (some have a few extra but), and the list goes on..
I was watching Tokyo on TV earlier on and it may as well have been London, Dubai or NY except for the Japanese writing instead of English or Arabic on the billboards, posters and shop signs.
It's quite beautiful really, I've never understood why some people are so obsessed with the past and so scared of change, change is healthy, never really felt much for tradition and all that *******, it's history and that's it, live in today not in outdated archaic traditions, leave the past in the history books, fair enough your language defines your ethnicity but other cultural baggage is unneccesary.
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hahahahahahahahahahahaha..