What is the definition and function of cultural globalization?

With the introduction of the word globalization, the word cultural globalization often appears in various media. This concept needs to be comprehensively analyzed from the understanding of cultural globalization and economic, political and social life. In addition, English, as a widely used language, should also be paid attention to in the process of cultural globalization.

The definition of cultural globalization means that all cultures in the world flow around the world in various ways under the simultaneous action of "integration" and "mutual differences". We might as well call the cultural identity formed in the process of cultural globalization "globalized culture". Understanding the cultural characteristics of globalization is the grasp of cultural globalization.

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(1) Cultural globalization is an important aspect of globalization. Like globalization, cultural globalization is an objective phenomenon, which indicates that with the development of information technology and network technology since 1990s, the development trend of cultural globalization is unstoppable. (2) As the product of human practical activities, culture cannot be separated from practice. In the era of globalization, with the development of informationization and networking, human practice has broken through the original time and space restrictions with cross-time communication and cross-time practice, and realized the globalization of cultural communication, cultural exchange and cultural communication. However, the deep value implication of cultural globalization is that a country and a nation, on the basis of transnational cultural exchanges and cultural exchanges, have been in conflict, running-in and integration in cultural values and cultural models for a period of time. In this sense, cultural globalization can be said to be a new cultural relationship and cultural model based on the cultural practice of a country or a region. Judging from the value of cultural globalization, China-ization of Marxism can be said to be a new cultural relationship and model established by China producers in practice after Marxism was introduced into China and gradually integrated into China's political and cultural system in the practice of China's revolution and construction. Based on the practice of global cultural exchange and communication, we can also find what contemporary human culture has, such as human ecological consciousness and culture, population quality and culture, human health and culture, and so on, in the newly constructed cultural relations and cultural models. The positive significance of cultural globalization can be confirmed by these cultural values shared by human beings. (3) Cultural globalization is not a single state, but a process or a group of processes. In the process of cultural globalization, cultural globalization is similar to a "structured" process. Because cultural globalization is not the action of a single person, a single region, a single nation or a single country, but the result of the cumulative interaction of countless individuals, countless units, countless nationalities and countless systems in the practice of cultural exchange and communication. Cultural globalization will not eliminate the cultural differences between different nationalities, nor can it solve the imbalance of the original cultural development. Cultural globalization not only reflects the existing unequal and unfair hierarchical patterns, but also produces new conflict and integration patterns in the process of cultural globalization. This is the cultural stratification with the structure of cultural globalization. In this sense, cultural globalization is also a structured and hierarchical process of global culture. (4) Globalization culture is not the Americanization and China that people are worried about, but the expansion and monopoly of a certain culture. Nor is it the mainstream culture in the world, such as "Confucian culture" and "Western culture". But the fusion of all cultures. For example, you can eat KFC fried chicken on the streets of Beijing and Mumbai; Some residents in Lagos or Kuala Lumpur can drink Coca-Cola, put on Levi 50 1 work clothes and listen to Madonna's music tapes. In the United States, its culture consists of absorbing cultural factors from other countries, because American culture is an immigrant culture. In new york, you can almost experience cooking techniques, music types, national arts, clothing styles, ways of doing business and so on from all over the world. However, this does not mean that they should give up their customs, family and religious obligations, or all their national characteristics. Therefore, we cannot simply conclude that cultural globalization is American-style homogenization. There are various cultural groups in the world today. In the process of world integration, in order to maintain their own characteristics, self-affirmation and identity, conflicts will inevitably occur, resulting in all kinds of worries and resistance. These contradictions and conflicts are not manifested in the confrontation between one or two cultures, nor are they only related to the main culture. For example, "Japanization" is much more threatening to South Korea than "Americanization". Cambodia is more afraid of "Vietnamese" and Sri Lanka is afraid of "localization". Various "cultural circles", such as "Chinese cultural circle" and "Christian cultural circle", are an imaginary group on the one hand, and create "barriers" between cultures on the other hand, forming a broader cultural monopoly. What we call global culture involves all cultures. (5) Global culture is not a culture based on land boundaries, but a culture based on the cultural subject-people. Toynbee, a famous British historian, put forward the theory of "challenge and response" to explain the emergence and development of national cultures in the world. According to this theory, the culture of each nation is a response to the challenges brought by its environment (Note: Toynbee's Historical Research (I), Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, p. 109. )。 In other words, the living environment of each nation plays an important role in the emergence and development of its culture. People sum up the cultural differences between the East and the West from different geographical environments. But at the same time, we should realize that with the expansion and complexity of society, cultural differences are more obvious. Even members of the same society will have cultural differences due to individual differences. People from different nationalities, countries and regions can also have the same cultural outlook. Due to the mutual differences and interdependence between people, the sanctity and universal humanity of human beings have become cultural concepts that can maintain the same sex and consistency of human beings. Such as "democracy" and "freedom" are accepted all over the world. But this does not mean that the global culture will really be unified or assimilated by these ideals, because these cultural ideals are constantly in the process of localization in different countries and regions, thus showing great differences. The "globality" in the "global culture" we talk about emphasizes an extremely broad concept of people, not a regional concept. (6) The result of cultural globalization is not necessarily cultural colonization. As long as it is not understood and recognized within the framework of ideology, it can be understood: on the one hand, the United States forcibly promotes its own cultural products and values by virtue of its economic and political status advantages in the international community; With the help of the media and the Internet, its penetration and influence are growing. We must pay full attention to this. On the other hand, the diversity and heterogeneity of global culture not only resists and restricts the colonization of American culture, but also produces, exchanges and interacts with new cultural relations and cultural models in the "global society" and "global field". In the words of Roland Robertson, the generation, development and evolution of contemporary culture are carried out in the "global field". With the process of cultural globalization, different nations and countries show their own changes in the "global field" and meet, collide and merge with other cultures, thus generating new cultural paradigms and cultural relations. Therefore, cultural globalization is a homogeneous and heterogeneous process, and it is a process of blending with heterogeneous cultures in the "global field" to create a new culture.