GEOG 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Homogenization, Cultural Relativism, Cultural Geography
9 Mar 2018
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": the question is loaded with ethnic and racial issues. Culture and cultural difference is becoming increasingly difficult to define in our modern/globalizing world. Cultural practices merging and creating new ways of doing things. Living in a world where you struggle between cultures. In a modern world, we are challenged in how we: "all people are the same; only their habits differ. " Movement/migration of people, bringing new cultural practices and ideas with them. English is the preferred second language in most places of the world. Societies are more in contact now than ever before. Allows us to see the way things are done in other parts of the world world. Global culture thesis assume everyone can afford new goods and services. People don"t attach same meaning to cultural elements. Globalization alters the way we perceive the world. How we construct our sense of identity and belonging. Ethnocentrism: the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one"s own culture.
