If you were to choose and adapt a foreign cultural trait brought about by globalization into our country, What would that be? Why?
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The presence of foreign songs, shows, and movies on domestic radios, televisions, and movie screens is one of the most salient aspects of globalisation. Trade in such cultural goods remains, however, far from free. Indeed, audiovisual services have for the most part been excluded from the progress in trade liberalisation that has occurred in other sectors. The fourth article of the GATT explicitly allows for screen quotas for minimum amounts of domestic origin cinema. Countries such as Korea, Brazil, Venezuela, Italy, and Spain, have taken advantage of this exception to institute quotas for domestic (or EU) film exhibition (Bernier, 2003).
The 1948 GATT agreement did not explicitly exempt other audiovisual services such as television and radio. They fall under the rubric of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The GATS approach allows countries to specify a list of sectors in which they are willing to make commitments, with no commitments implied on services they omit from the list. Most countries have opted not to make commitments on audiovisual services (Bernier, 2004). The result is that domestic quotas for television and radio remain commonplace, e.g. Canada’s 35% domestic content quota on radio and France’s 60% European origin quota for broadcast television. Both Canada and the EU have exempted cultural goods from recent bilateral trade agreements.