10/11/2011

The case for contamitation

Question:what's the contradiction in the argument that American mass culture is choking out other countries' tradition?

Capitalism frees women.Why do we complain that capitalism is sexist and radical even we have found out that some other traditions are more extreme?

A very good idea in this article is that globalization produce homogeneity while it's also a threat to homogeneity.As the world develops, we now can have access to good medicine and food.If we don't have it, we will suffer and endure pain.The homogeneity of wealth and equpment is certainly a good thing. Should we accuse that people degrade just because we eat the same food?
Certainly not. We choose to eat food.The reason why McDonald's and Coca Cola are so famous and popular lies in the fact that they represents good taste and high quality.Your tradition meal is noodles,but will you have noodles all in your life?Having the same food is the outcome of our choice,not because of the enforcement of other countries.

The way to maintain the diversity of culture is let people make their own choice. I think it's quite like the ethic of existentialism.
Existentialism is the notion that we human are born to make choice. We first choose what to be, and then we try hard on it and finally we become what we want to be.
In terms of culture.There are 7 billion people in the world and it means there are roughly 7 billion different choices.We cannot predict every single person's choice,nor should we force him. So people will choose tradition,which in fact is the outcome of choices of our ancestor.

Another enlightening point in this article is that the author explains a fallacy successfully. Cultural preservationists claim that the cheap western clothes make more people to buy and thus the traditional clothes face extinction. But the author that it's based on the fact that people don't have enough money to afford the traditional costume.

This article is about to explain the good points of globalization. We don't need to protect the culture intentionally.Instead, just like one of the basic principles of economics says, people respond to incentive.Just let the people make their own choice based on their interest.Certainly there won't be a circumstance in which 7billion people make exactly the same choice.

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