Cultural globalization

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Cultural globalization is the accelerating transnational circulation of ideas, meanings, values, and cultural practices that reshape collective identities and social relations across geographic, linguistic, and political boundaries. This process is characterized by the common consumption of cultures that have been disseminated by the Internet, popular culture media, and international travel. This has contributed to the processes of commodity exchange and colonization, both of which have a longer history of carrying cultural meaning around the globe. The creation and expansion of such social relations is not merely observed on a material level. Cultural globalization involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people associate their individual and collective cultural identities. It brings increasing interconnectedness among different populations and cultures. The idea of cultural globalization emerged in the late 1980s, but was diffused widely by Western academics throughout...

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