ra row Salaray Salazar 1 ‘The domination of interconnectivity between nations, brought about by increased technology and technological improvements, will become one of the defining elements of the 21* century. This process is commonly referred to as Globalization, and it extends across political, economic, cultural, and ecological barriers —although its impact extends heavily on shaping culture, and creating global culture, globalization at its foundation is an aspect occurring. from the developing stage of capitalism that is occurring currently, it’s therefore certain to assume without the development and global implementation of capitalism, in its various forms, globalization would not exist. Given this knowledge you will be more susceptible to understand the capitalist phenome of Globalization and its impact on cultures; Globalization promotes hybridization and glocalization of cultures through forms of consumerism and economic expansion, cultures are subjected to having selected aspects combined with other cultures to create commodities —such as food, music, clothing, etc., that are consumable by local and global regions across the world, creating the perception of interconnected culture, Global Culture. To exemplify this, consider the song “Get Ur Freak on” by Missy Elliot (Hankins 193), which appeared on the American hip-hop music scene in the spring of 2001. While the song was composed and sung by an American musie artist, its composition brings together tabla, rumbi, and snippets of Panjabi, all of which are foreign musie forms that originate in India, These sounds didn’t come together coincidently, they came together because Missy Elliot, along with her co-producer Timbland came across the sounds coincidentally while traveling (Hankins 201). ‘The sounds—Panjabi, fabla, and fumbi, were selected by them both for the very reason that they ‘were, for the most part, unheard in the American Hip Hop industry at the time; this is the selective process occurring, with little disregard for the actual culture of the Indian people. These aspects of Indian music were dominantly selected to be incorporated with other popular-cultureSalazar 3 with them to the kitchen, but they and their cuisines are ostracized due to lack of popularity in these local regions. They then choose to modify and select certain qualities of their cultural food, purely to sustain a successful business, and combine it with a more desired Americanized outtake—this often means adding sweet and thick sauces and saturated fats, From this hybridizing process you get something along the lines of Orange Chicken, which is far from authentic Chinese food, but yet its popularity has led to its presence and desire throughout the Chinese food industry and large corporations such as Panda Express, When consuming Orange chicken the person supports the idea of Orange chicken as a cultural food from China, and Chinese culture in general. It is this concept that will continue to progress and eventually lead Americans and Canadians in future generations with the inability to distinguish a commodity such as Orange Chicken, from true cultural Chinese cuisine. So far we've considered the exchange between cultures brought about by globalization and consumerism, and its impact on taking cultural aspects of food and music and hybridizing them to appeal to a wider audience in the local regions of Canada and the United States, but let's consider these impacts on a region not residing in the North American continent—Iet us take a look at globalization and its impact on the native people of the Democratic Republic of The Congo. The country from what was seen in the documentary witnessed in class, exhibits how the country heavily populated by natives who live in poverty, in a region run-down and surrounded by garbage and broken down objects, lacking a secured source of the basic human necessitate that is clean water. And yet we witness the emergence of a group of individuals who take pride in themselves for dressing entirely in western fashion, heavily influenced by Parisian fashion, the Congo Dandies.Salazar 5 Task you to consider the impact of Taco Bell and the perception of Mexican cuisine, Given that the impacts of consumerism and its premise on economic expansion appears in different nations across the globe, and in the case of the Congo Dandies, the Democratic Republic of The Congo. Within the documentary we witnessed in class we get a sense of the impact that occurs in a region of the world where many of the people live impoverished and even