How Has Globalization Caused a Loss of

Culture
 Staff Writer
 Oct. 25, 2011 11:21 p.m.

By Nabila Nali

Tangier - This is a true problem that I’ve been seeing all over the world, and
the main reason behind it is, unfortunately, Globalization. I’m no anti-
globalization activist or anything. In fact, I’m totally for globalization,
economically and industrially speaking, but we can’t neglect the negative
effects it has on culture and society.

In this globalized world, cities are becoming clones of each other, and
people are converging into fake stereotypes; gone are the unique cities that
carry so much history and culture in every corner. Lost are the enriching
cultural differences and specificities that make a society uniquely what it is.
Morocco looks like Spain.

London looks like Paris, which looks like Madrid. Restaurants serving this
or that country’s traditional food are drowned out by the huge fast food
chains. Beautiful traditional clothing is lost between the new bulk-made
looks created by the big brands, people look alike, eat alike and dress alike
whether they’re in New York, New Delhi or MOROCCO.

We’re losing one of the things that count the most: our identity, the
uniqueness in us, which makes us special and allows us to stand out from
the crowd. They say that one has to be affiliated to some culture or else one
is lost no matter how good or bad it is. I want to be judged by my origin.

Again, I’m all for cultural exchange and value it dearly, and I, more than
anyone else, treasure the notion of a global citizen. But still that doesn’t
mean letting go of our unique cultures to adopt a unified fake money-driven
one.

*Nabila Nali is a contributor to Morocco World News.