Globalization, Flow of Culture and Sub-cultures
Globalization is a world process that involves the integration of the world based on the flow of products, views and culture across borders(Hall). As the world becomes more integrated, there is friction intra and inter culture and this is true to Taiwan too as teenage girls adapt western views regarding sexuality.
Globalization itself can be viewed as different strains and here is their break ground.
Globalization as an outgrowth of cultural identities
This view of globalization suggests that stronger cultural forces subjugate weaker identities as they move across borders. One example is seeing how western influences and pop cultures has disturbed the cultural harmony in Korea (insert link). As cultures and sub-cultures flow across borders they tend to affect the local population in different ways and this view of globalization ignores the complexity of this audience reaction. To illustrate this, take the sub-culture enjo kosai, it originated in Japan but when it moved regionally it anchored differently in Taiwan as it did in Hong Kong(Lam). One reason is that sexual work wasn’t as shunned in Hong Kong as it did in Taiwan hence the different reception.
Globalization as an outcome of modernity
In this discourse, globalization is viewed as a natural discourse from the outcome of the workings of the projection of modernity. This suggests that globalization is/was inevitable because of the general advancements of society. However, modernity is different from capitalism as
Globalization as growth involving cultural hybridity
Discourses that identify cultural hybridity and investigate power relations between periphery and centre from the perspective of postcolonial criticism
Future
References:
Hall Stuat,The+Local+and+the+Global, Globalization and Ethnicity _Chap.+1+from+Culture%2C+Globalization+and+the+World-System_.pdf
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