ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Identity Politics, Cultural Rights, Mass Media
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Globalization: process of connectedness, leads to a world that feels closer together. Includes mass media, information flow, travel and tourism. 1400 ad: old globalization - globalization 1. 0". Trading along silk road connected to europe through middle east to asia. Spread islam and chinese + various empires. Difficulties trading lead to europeans finding multiple new routes. 16th - 18th centuries: colonialism - globalization 2. 0". Core country maintains control over peripheral and semi-peripheral colonies through trade. Core country obtains resources, manufactures, and sells back with added tariffs. Usa sells cotton to uk, uk manufactures and sells back clothes to usa. Colonizers used racism and stereotypes to shape colonized countries; these stereotypes remain long after decolonization. Europeans use this to justify the extremely wrong things they do to the countries they colonized; racism in slavery. Cricket is still one of world"s most popular sports. English is global language, more people speaking it as second language. In the 19th centuries, technological advances changed imperialism.
