Why Does Globalization of Popular Culture Cause Problems?

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Objectives

• 1) Threat to Folk Culture.• 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture

How MDC’s threaten LCD’s Culture

• Rise in incomes = rise in demand of Western products.

• Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?

Style of Power

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In Another Dimension

American Woman

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The REAL WORLD

• As LDC become more like MDC: traditional fashion is lost.

• What has been happening to the traditional role of women?

Negative Impact of Women’s Work• Uneducated & poor

women working outside the home traditionally helped their family through agriculture and handicrafts.

• What does a poor woman want?

• What does a rich man want?

• Rise of the sex industry in LDC?

India’s Marriage Dowries• Dowry is a small gift from the

family of the groom to the family of the bride.

• Reversal of Dowry in India and expected to be larger. Why?

• Emphasis on consumer goods in male dominated society.

• Repercussions of unsatisfactory” dowries have been murder.

• Aborted fetuses of females higher than males.

Threat of Foreign Media Imperialism

• Popular customs can be threat to national security. Why?

• Media/ News = Western Controlled and reflect Western beliefs and social norms.

• i.e: upward social mobility, relative freedom of women, glorification of youth and violence

Response to Cultural/ Economic Imperialism

• LDC are too poor to compete with MDC news media

• Sensationalized news versus more meaningful news

• Banning satellite dishes, programs, websites, movies.

American vs Chinese Values

Confronting a Problem

Sense of Self

Weekend Activities

Expressing Anger

Waiting in Line

Status of Leader

How Relationships Work

Punctuality

Transportation

Environmental Impacts of Popular Culture

• Imposed on rather that spring from environment.

• Spatial expression is manufactured elsewhere

• product recognition = greater consumption???

Increased Demand for Natural Resources

• Negative impact: depletion of scarce natural resources. What resources are causing conflict?

• Environmental Pollution