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A. What’s New?

“Globalization means we have to re-examine our ideas, and look at

ideas from other countries, other cultures,
and open ourselves to them.”

-Herbie Hancock

The concept of globalization is relatively new. Globalization is an event and issue that affects all fields of study,
from the social sciences, natural sciences, to humanities. This lesson provides the definitions of globalization, as well
as gives perspective on how globalization affects political processes in our country.

B. What is it?

Nation and state are two different but interlinked concepts. Different in the sense that nation is a ore
cultural and identity-based term, while state mainly refers to a political entity bounded by a territory and headed
by a government (Quilop 2006). Both nation and state share the fact that they refer to a single group of people
despite the difference on how these groups are organized, with one stressing a more cultural organization and the
other a more political one. However, these concepts complement each other and their combined assumptions of
the cultural and political make up for stronger organization

Thus is the creation of the concept nation-state, which generally refers to a political unit with a defined
territory, government, and constituents that more or less share the same culture and identity. In a nation-state, the
political organization and the government are supported by a cultural base of imagined unity and identity as
presented by Benedict Anderson in his most influential work on nationalism, Imagined Communities (1991).

During the late 19 th century and 20th century, the creation of nation states-was experience in Southeast
Asia, following the decolonization process that started with the loss of Spanish control over the Philippines in 1988.
Decolonization was hastened by different political and economic turmoil in both Europe and Asia the 20 th century,
such as the First and Second World Wars. These political upheavals ultimate led to the reconfiguration of power
from the Europeans to the two super power, the Union Soviet Republic (USSR) and the United States of America
 (USA, and the consequent loss of more European colonies in South Asia such as Singapore form the British, an
Vietnam from the French.

However, with the advent of globalization, the defined physical and cultural boundaries of nation-states
are now being threatened by a new type of order that some scholars claim to have taken its roots various historical
process

such as the colonization during the 16 th century. Globalization is a

process of interaction and integhration of every landscape in the planet
(Levin Institute 2015). To borrow Arjun Appadurai’s terms (Appadurai
1966); these landscapes include the technoscape (technology),
financescape (economics), ethnoscape (culture and social life), and
ideascape (ideas).

Globalization is a process that is slowly changing things into the complex scheme that transcends cultural, political, and
social boundaries—a system devoid of spatial restraints that ultimately challenges the very existence of nation-states.

C. What’s more?
ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY: Answer the following questions on the space provided.

1. Part of the definition of nation-states is the constituents more or less share a common culture and identity.
In the Philippines, which is composed of more than 100 different cultural groups, what do you think is that
common Filipino identity and culture that binds us?
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2. If you were to choose and adapt a foreign cultural trait brought about by globalization into our country?
What would that be? Why?
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3. Are traditions always outdated and modern things always means progress? Why or why not?
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D. What I can do (Assessment)?

Complete the Venn diagram by citing three differences between state and nation, and four similarities of both.

State Nation
1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
3. 3. 3.
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REFLECTION:
I understand that
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I realize that
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Prepared: Reviewed: Approved:

CHEF ANDREW FRANCIA NICOLAS A. YUZON, ED. D. AMALIA D. LISING, ED. D.

Teacher I Head Teacher VI, SHS Principal III