do you think that local cultures should be protected (very long answer) (global perspevtive)
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How Can We Create Global Citizens Whilst Protecting Local Cultures?
24.9.2018 | BY JOSEPHINE LISTER
Helping students to become global citizens is important for today’s world, but how do we create global citizens whilst still protecting local cultures? Globalization can threaten different ways of life, turning the whole world into one culture – usually a Westernized one.
Globalization isn’t all bad. It is through connections that cultures can evolve and develop to be more forward-thinking and tolerant, and to create better ways of life. Without an exchange of ideas, we wouldn’t have the philosophies we have today, the cultures, the art, the medicine or the technologies. All of this was possible due to connectivity, collaboration and an exchange of knowledge between different people.
Today’s young people can benefit from a globally connected world. The internet has democratized information and knowledge. No longer is it just the elite who have access to libraries of information, content is at our fingertips, and if you want to learn about something – anything – you can at the press of a few buttons. As long as you have an internet connection and a device, that is.
But with this globalization, comes the threat of loss of culture. Namely, Western culture and values being seen as ‘the norm’ and everyone else as ‘other’. Every culture has something to offer the world, and no society is finished, it’s always evolving. We, as a society, constantly need to learn, understand and respect each other in order to move forward in ways that make sense for our locality.
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Safeguarding all the various cultures from around the world will help to protect the native viewpoints. If we don't stop to consider the importance of cultural preservation, all these age-old traditions and heritage will start to disappear and we will lose our identities.