CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION BENEFITS POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION

 Profits to companies and nations - Majority of pop growth is taking place in developing
The transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the  Offers opportunities for development and
world in such a way that extends and intensifies social countries
advancement - Pop increase may lead to major problems of migration,
relations.  Creates a more homogeneous world environmental pressure, and resource management
Marked by the common consumption of cultures  Generates interdependent companies - The world is not reproducing at a higher rate, but
MIGRATION people are living longer.
DIFFUSED BY:
Language, religious beliefs, and values being spread by: TERMS
 Internet
 Popular culture  Military conquest DEMOGRAPHY Study of the size, composition,
 Media  Missionary work and distribution of human
 International travel  Trade populations
CRUDE Number of babies born in a year
Brings increasing interconnectedness among different FOOD AND SPORT BIRTHRATE per 1,000 population
populations and cultures. CRUDE Number of people that die in a
- Food consumption is an important aspect of culture DEATH RATE year divided by the total
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
(societies have unique diets). population
Cultural globalization refers to the rapid movement of ideas, - The spread of global food corporations has arguably RATE OF Difference between the crude
attitudes, meanings, values, and cultural products across led to the decline of local diets and eating traditions POPULATION birthrate and the death rate
national borders. (e.g. McDonald’s, Coca – cola, and Starbucks). GROWTH
- [SHARED GLOBAL LEISURE EXPERIENCE] world (Natural Increase)
OVERVIEW cup, Olympics, formula 1.

 Diffusion of ideas and cultures amongst all of the CONVERGING GLOBAL CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
civilizations of the world.
3 PRINCIPAL MEASURES OF
- “consumption experience/ lifestyle”
 Trend that will eventually make all of human
- Similar styles (car ownership, tourism, shopping
POPULATION
experience and customs the same since all cultures are
coming together into one malls, leisure parks)
1. Birth rate or fertility
- Homogenous cultural experience
 Occurs in everyday life – through wireless communication, 2. Death mortality
electronic commerce, popular culture, and international IS THERE A GLOBAL CULTURE? 3. Migration
trade Globalists: YES AND NO NO
 Attempt to promote a western lifestyle and possibly - Decline of nationalism - Nationalism and ethnic
Americanize the world. - Growing universal nationalism are alive
language (English) - Globalization = Thomas Malthus
DRIVERS/ CONTRIBUTING FACTORS - Universal market of Americanization
popular culture - Undermines and
(entertainment, the destroys local cultures - Population growth > food supply
 New technology and forms of communication internet, food) - Engenders a backlash - Dangers of unrestricted population growth
 Transportation technologies and services – mass - Does not destroy local and resistance - Food supply increases arithmetically (consistent rate)
migration and individual travel cultures, though it may while population increases uncontrollably.
 Infrastructures and institutionalization influence them
- Growth of democratic
culture
Demographic Transition
- Explains the rapid world pop growth
- Process by which pop change through patterns of high
– low birth rates and high-low death rates
PRE – TRANSITION
(PRE INDUSTRIAL)
STAGE
TRANSITIONAL STAGE
POST – TRANSITION
STAGE
GLOBAL IMMIGRATION
REASONS:
 Economic
 Political
 Pop growth is  Social
moderate (high  Cultural
birthrate, high death  Push – pull factor
rate – cancelled out)
 High death rate due EFFECTS
to poor sanitation,
disease, primitive  Environmental (Population and Over – exploitation)
farming, lack of  Economic ( loss in economic activities in origin)
medical knowledge  Health and Social (insufficient facilities)
 Industrialization
 Tech improvements Country of Origin
(low death rates) Population Control (Approaches) ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
 Improvements in  Money sent home by  Reduces working
1. Reduce the birthrate of a population migrants force
sanitation, nutrition,
2. Control fertility to achieve zero rate of population  Decreases pressure on  gender imbalance
and medicine
growth jobs and resources (women and children
 Cultural values still
3. Achieve a negative rate of growth reducing the size of  Migrants may return are left)
encouraged people to
the population with new skills  ‘Brain drain’ if many
have large families
(high birthrates) skilled workers leave
Zero Population Growth
 Low birthrates, low
death rates Organization that advocates no pop growth Host Country
 Pop growth control
 Medicine became ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
1. Birth control
more effective  Richer and more  increasing cost of
2. Legalized abortion
 Cultural values 3. Education and changing attitudes in the family diverse culture services
regarding child  Help to reduce labor  overcrowding
bearing, CHAIN MIGRATION shortages  disagreements
urbanization, and  migrants are more between beliefs and
increasing education - The tendency of immigrants to migrate to areas where prepared to take on cultures
led couples to desire they have kin and others from their home low paid, low-skilled
smaller families than communities jobs
in the past.
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS
MIGRANT OBSTACLES
- May take some jobs away from native-born 1. unemployment
residents 2. racism
- They perform functions (“dirty work”) that 3. language barrier
citizens are reluctant to do. 4. lack of opportunities
 *There are at least 7, 102 living languages in the world Countries with Most Spoken Languages
LANGUAGE
- Human ability to acquire and use complex systems of 1. Papua New Guinea
AMERICAS, EUROPE286
communication. 2. Indonesia
1064
- Written or spoken 3. Nigeria
4. India
FILIPINO ALPHABET 5. US
ASIA, 2301 6. China
- 26 letters (Latin Alphabet) PACIFIC, 7. Mexico
- Ñ of the Spanish alphabet 1313 8. Cameroon
- Ng of the Tagalog alphabet AFRICA, 9. Australia
2138 10. Brazil
- Learned from birth
MOTHER TONGUE - Basis for Mostly Spoken Languages
sociolinguistic
identity 1. Chinese
- Not the native - RUSSOPHONE (Russian) 2. Spanish
SECOND LANGUAGE language - SINOPHONE (Chinese) 3. English
- Used in the locale of - LUSOPHONE (Portuguese) 4. Arabic
the person - FRANCOPHONE (Frech) 5. Hindi
- Trade language, - HISPANOPHONE (Spanish) 6. Bengali
bridge language, - ANGLOPHONE (English) 7. Portuguese
vehicular language 8. Russian
CHAVACANO
- Called a third 9. Japanese
Luzon - based Mindanao - based 10. W. Punjabi
language if distinct
 Ternateno  Zamboangueno
LINGUA FRANCA from both native
languages  Caviteno  Davaoeno / # of Countries in which a Language is Spoken
- Makes  Ermiteno Castellano Abakay
communication  Cotabateno 1. English (101)
possible 2. Arabic (60)
- Simplified version of 3. French (51)
a language 6 Official Languages of UN 4. Chinese (33)
- Means of 5. Spanish (31)
1. English 6. Persian (29)
communication
2. Spanish 7. German (18)
PIDGIN LANGUAGE between two or more 3. French
groups that do not 8. Russian (16)
4. Arabic 9. Malaysian (13)
have a language in
5. Russian 10. Portuguese (12)
common 6. Chinese
- Stable natural
CREOLE LANGUAGE language
- Developed from a
pidgin
RELIGION RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD 3 TYPES OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
 Christianity
 Islam  CHURCHES (primary, legitimate institution)
SIX DEFINING ELEMENTS  SECTS (group broken off from church)
 Hindus
1. Institutionalized  Chinese folk – religionists  CULTS (devoted to a cause/ leader w/ charisma)
2. Feature of Groups  Buddhists
3. Based on beliefs that are considered sacred  Jewish BECOMING RELIGIOUS
4. Establishes values and moral proscriptions for
 Roman Catholics – - Ppl learn religious faith through religious socialization
behavior
hierarchical religious - FAMILY is one of the main sources of religious
5. Establishes norms for behavior
system (values and codes socialization
6. Provides answers to questions of ultimate meaning
by pope) - Religious conversion involves a dramatic
CHRISTIANITY  PROTESTANTS transformation of RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION (Durkheim)
(Categories – mainline or
 Reaffirms the social bonds between people conservative CONVERSION (Three Phases)
 Creates social cohesion and integration through fundamentalists)
 High holidays and bar 1. Disruption in previous life experience leading to
religious rituals
mitzvahs WITHDRAWAL and some LOSS OF AUTONOMY
 Binds individuals to society by establishing a
 40% of Jewish people 2. CREATION OF AN EMOTIONAL BOND with group
collective consciousness JUDAISM
 More than 4,000 yo members and a weakening of former bonds
3. Period of INTENSE INTERACTION with the new
PROTESTANT ETHIC – SPIRIT OF  KARMA (all human action
group
CAPITALISM (Weber) comes with a spiritual
consequence)
 Caste system in India
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES
 Protestant faith supported the development of
Capitalism HINDUISM  GANDHI (used Hindu  RACIAL PREJUDICE
 Material wealth meant one was favored by God principles of justice, o Opinions not based on experience nor an
 Value judgment about those who haven’t succeeded honesty, and courage to actual reason
can be traced to influence of religion guide one of the most o Encourage intolerance
important independence  HOMOPHOBIA
RELIGION, SOCIAL CONFLICT, AND movements in the world. o Religious orientations that promote
 Pursues spiritual
OPPRESSION transformation and
intolerance of any kind
enlightenment to relieve  ANTI – SEMITISM
 Religion legitimate the social order and supports the o Discrimination against Jews
ideas of the ruling class themselves of worldly
BUDDHISM suffering o Persistent form of prejudice
 Oppressed people develop religion to soothe their
distress (Prevents them from rising up against  REINCARNATION –
oppression) birth and rebirth NEW CONSERVATISM
 Religion can be the basis for social change or social  meditation
 originated in China  Fueled anti – abortion activism
continuity.
CONFUCIANISM  disciplined way of life  Revived the effort to teach CREATIONISM
(Principles of  no God, nor disciples-  Against women’s rights & gay, lesbian rights while
Confucius) expression of goodness supporting “family values”
and social unity
(^ conservative grps, media, civil rights, feminism)