Mentoy, Jan Jericho C.

ChE-1204

The international friendship story of Gio and Latif presents how globalization is an important aspect of cultural
enrichment in a global scale, as the journey of friendship between both characters centralized on the process of
sharing and discussing the cultures of each other.

In terms of cultural influence, globalization enrich the culture of different countries as they share and exchange
each individual values. For example , foods from one country could be influenced from the style of the other.
As the story presents, the reorganization of the British to the labor industry of Malaysian societies brought
different varieties of fool to the country coming from the Chinese, Indian and Malay people. Similarly, this is also
observed from the cuisines of Singapore since both countries were previously together. Malaysia also formed
hawker centers to spread their food culture to tourist worldwide. Cebu and Malaysian cafes were inspired from
the style and cuisine of Australian cafes. Moreover, Australia’s cuisine was more diverse as students from
Malaysia keeps coming to their country, which lead to Malaysian restaurants becoming more prominent in the
country. This is also due to the Sydneysiders , which are people that are more open and diverse on their palate.
On the other hand, globalization could increase the cultural awareness globally as they acquire different culture
from other countries as well, which could be seen on situation of Latif as he become interested on the
entertainment industry of the Philippines.

Globalization also promotes international partnership between different countries worldwide as countries
become closer to each other , developing a strong bond. Based on the story, the formation of international
competition such as the International Model UN to connect with other countries.