There is a big confusion about values going on, even on a more globalizing scale. How about this in your personal and scientific scale and experience?
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An ethnographic research on cultural globalization, it’s manifestation in identity and
culture. The research is a qualitative study, data collection was conducted through
theme interviews among Finnish long and short term travellers. A hermeneutical
approach to data analysis was chosen.
Research questions centere around the process of globalization and the role travellers
play in the creation and diffusion of new ideas. Thoughts on a possibly global culture
are investigated. Globalization is defined as a macro level process incorporating
smaller scale processes within it. It is seen as the intensification of the interaction of
people on a world wide scale. Brief literary overviews on the terms globalization,
culture and identity are included.
Globalization is seen and experienced as a controversial phenomenon. Informants
questioned the lack of a global value base upon which individuals could act positively
and constructively. Informants’ views on cultural issues, the interdependence of
mankind and the world at large were reinforced through travel experiences.
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Explanation:
I would argue that globalization is an ideologically-based and driven concept and is essentially a meta-narrative that is used to justify the desires of some powerful vested interests. Basically, globalisation is an extension the belief that capitalist firms now produce the vast majority of goods and services produced in the world (i.e., the commodification thesis) and extends this by arguing that this process of commodification is increasingly taking place within an open world economy in which firms operate in a de-regulated and seamless global marketplace. In this globalization thesis, it is a specific type of commodified economy that is becoming hegemonic and stretching its tentacles wider and deeper across the globe, namely unregulated or ‘free market’ capitalism. Regulated national and international capitalism is increasingly being replaced by unregulated global capitalism composed of hyper-mobile and homeless capital operating in a borderless world. Globalisation, of course, is therefore a manifestation of a neo-liberal economic ideology.