GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Qawwali, United States Code, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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The hybridization of culture (mixing/fusion) can lead to: Cultural misappropriation: the misuse and abuse of (cid:498)other(cid:499) cultural elements, cultural displacement, e. g. qawwali in discotheques. Fear of losing original language, culture, identity. Lack of role models to inspire and cement the new cultural construction. Culture is most complex phenomena associated with globalization. Cultural identities, perhaps more than race, continue to provide meaning, value and inspiration in a global era. Cultural particularism: globally held ideals, values and practices, global identity and community: cosmopolitanism, neil armstrong: (cid:498)one small step (cid:499, locally driven ideals, values and practices, locally rooted identity and community, staking the american flag on the moon. Economic globalization is not separate from cultural globalization and vice versa. Globalization gives rise to its opposite: localization. The threat of homogenization gives rise to the proliferation of difference. Local resistance is only heard in an already shared global idiom, in global institutions (i. e. un, udhr, icc, etc. )
