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Cultural globalization is the process through which, as a result of the spread of ideas and

goods, the experience of daily life reflects a globalization of cultural manifestations.


Globalization has been viewed as a trend toward uniformity that will eventually make human
experience across the globe virtually the same. This trend has been fueled by the effectiveness or
popularity of wireless communications, electronic commerce, popular culture, and international
travel. However, it appears that this is overstating the situation. Despite the fact that there are
homogenizing influences, nothing resembling a single global culture is being produced by them.
In my opinion, the key to conceptualizing globalization is to reject romantic and wishful
interpretations, as it is precisely these kinds of interpretations that hinder us from separating
ourselves from a condition of mental closure reminiscent of the Cold War era. We have become
accustomed to thinking of globalization as a trendy but unrelated subject. Our opinions on
globalization frequently conflict with one another.

On the one hand, globalization is idealized to the point where it turns into the ultimate
fantasy that will one day resolve the myriad issues we are currently experiencing. Some people
who call themselves proponents of globalization in China frequently use concepts like the "world
tide" or "universal ideals" to support their claims. Such views are oversimplifications because
they treat American or Western politics, economics, and culture as the defining principles of
humanity as a whole, concealing the issues with globalization with sentimental language about a
purportedly universal civilisation. On the other side, we may exclude globalization by presuming
that China is still largely feudal and unmodernized, making it premature to even bring up the
topic. As a result, we might assume that China's social issues are a result of China alone and
reject even the presence of globalization, making its problems of little significance to us. Or, we
believe that, given the complexity of China's issues, talking about globalization is too much of a
"luxury." So, in order to fight globalization, we adopt a rigorous nativism. In reality, conceptual
closure syndrome is a term that refers to both the romantic and alienation tendencies. One side
conjures up an ideology that makes globalization seem mysterious, while the other portrays
China as a "self-contained land" that has nothing to do with globalization. They genuinely
disregard the inherent conflicts of interest and contradictions in the process of globalization and
brush over its drawbacks and issues.

People are considerably more conscious of the distinctions and particularities of their
own culture in the current era of globalization. Cultural identity gives local knowledge a
worldwide context as well as a sense of self, community, and nation. According to Deng (2005),
cultural identity provides the answers to the questions "Who am I? Where are we headed? " and
"What Have We Got? People will defend their cultures because they use them to create their
identities. Actually, cultural identity is now much more widely recognized than it was before
globalization.

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