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Globalization has had far-reaching effects on our lifestyle. It has led to fa
technology, improved communication and innovation. Globalization has also
areas of concern, and prominent among these is the impact that it has had on the
Activists have pointed out that globalization has led to an increase in the c
products, which has impacted the ecological cycle. Increased consumpti
increase in the production of goods, which in turn puts stress on th
Globalization has also led to an increase in the transportation of raw materia
one place to another. Earlier, people used to consume locally-grown
globalization, people consume products that have been developed in forei
amount of fuel that is consumed in transporting these products has led to
Pollution levels in the environment. It has also led to several other enviro
uch as noise pollution and landscape intrusion. Transportation has also
on-renewable sources of energy, such as gasoline. The gases that are
rcraft have led to the depletion of the ozone layer apart from increas
fect. The industrial waste that is generated as a result of production has
d dumped in oceans. This has killed many underwater organisms and
rmful chemicals in the ocean. Globalization is a process of globalization that
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The increase of globalization has been an economic force throughout the last century, but economic interdependency is not its only by-product. At its core, globalization is the lowering of economic and cultural impediments to communication between countries all over the globe. Globalization in the sphere of culture and communication can take the form of access to foreign newspapers (without the difficulty of procuring a printed copy) or, conversely, the ability of people living in previously closed countries to communicate experiences to the outside world relatively cheaply.
TV, especially satellite TV, has been one of the primary ways for American entertainment to reach foreign shores. This trend has been going on for some time now, for example, with the launch of MTV Arabia (Arango, 2008). American popular culture is, and has been, a crucial export.
At the Eisenhower Fellowship Conference in Singapore in 2005, U.S. ambassador Frank Lavin gave a defense of American culture that differed somewhat from previous arguments. It would not be all Starbucks, MTV, or Baywatch, he said, because American culture is more diverse than that. Instead, he said that “America is a nation of immigrants,” and asked, “When Mel Gibson or Jackie Chan come to the United States to produce a movie, whose culture is being exported (Lavin, 2005)?” This idea of a truly globalized culture—one in which content can be distributed as easily as it can be received—now has the potential to be realized through the Internet. While some political and social barriers still remain, from a technological standpoint there is nothing to stop the two-way flow of information and culture across the globe.
China, Globalization, and the Internet
The scarcity of artistic resources, the time lag of transmission to a foreign country, and censorship by the host government are a few of the possible impediments to transmission of entertainment and culture. China provides a valuable example of the ways the Internet has helped to overcome (or highlight) all three of these hurdles.
China, as the world’s most populous country and one of its leading economic powers, has considerable clout when it comes to the Internet. In addition, the country is ruled by a single political party that uses censorship extensively in an effort to maintain control. Because the Internet is an open resource by nature, and because China is an extremely well-connected country—with 22.5 percent (roughly 300 million people, or the population of the entire United States) of the country online as of 2008 .China has been a case study in how the Internet makes resistance to globalization increasingly difficult.
