Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Globalization in Japan -.-




The world have changed completely after the globalization. But what is globalization? Well, we can define this word many different ways, the the most correctelly is that the acessibility of the information of everywhere from everywhere; or also the exchange of cultural habites and information around the world.
In one hand the globalization was a great happening, because now everyone can have acess to everything in this world. But in the other hand, people are giving up from their on cultural habits, traditions, changing their behaviors and their lifes to become something that they weren't born to live.
Japan is a great example of it. Japan has one of the gretest cultures and with really strong traditions and people here are giving it up to try to become people that they aren't. One good example of it is their obsession for american habits and life style. Their lifes are the whole time tring to become one of them, since they way they dress, their houses, the way they eat, where they hang out and theway they act until they way they look; everyday the facial plastics for oriental people are becoming more and more commum, changing they way the look to became more ocidental.
With the globalization we should had just improve and add knowledge and not gave up or forget our own traditions and belives as the way it is happening. It is such a pitty that something that was created for a good purpuse has such demaged consequencies like the way the globalization in many countries had.

1 comment:

  1. You would have done better to pick one specific example of globalization in Japan as a case study. What are your photos illustrating?

    Globalization is a continuing process that has been going on for a very long time. It is an unequal process benefiting some and harming others. Culture change is another process that has always been with us. Cultures adapt and change to survive and thrive. Globalization might make culture change more rapidly. It's tough to discuss improvement and loss within these two complex processes, especially without specific ethnographic examples.

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