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RELIGION

1. Define Religion.

Religion is the belief and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal
God or gods. It is also defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals,
world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics or organizations that relates humanity to
supernatural, transcendental or spiritual elements. Religion is also a belief in a supernatural power
that is regarded as the being(s) that created and maintains the universe.

2. What are the differences between religious people and globalists.

The two contrasts in their belief; (1) religion is concerned with the sacred, while globalism
values material wealth, (2) religion follows divine commandments, while globalism abides by human-
made laws, (3) religion assumes that there is the possibility of communication between humans and
the transcendent, however, globalism’s yardstick is how much of human action can lead to the highest
material satisfaction and subsequent wisdom that this new status produces, (4) religious people are
less concerned with wealth and all that comes along with it, (5) a religious person’s main duty is to
live a virtuous, sinless life, (6) globalists are less worried about whether they will end up in heaven or
hell, (7) religious people aspire to become saints, globalists trains to be a shrewd businessperson, (8)
religious people see politics and the quest for power as evidence of humanity’s weakness, globalists
value them as both means and ends to further open the economies of the world, and (9) religion and
globalization clash over the fact that religious evangelization us a form of globalization. Globalist’s
ideal is largely focused on the realm of markets.

3. Is the globalization of religion good or bad? Why or Why not?

We can see in the video that the relationship between globalization and religion is a complex issue as
it has brought both new possibilities and furthering challenges. So, from the video analysis we can
see that globalization enhances both positive and negative aspects of religion. As media and
technology in one hand spread religious ideas and teach to respect other religions, they also cause
breaking religious ties that give birth to new religions or sometimes makes people ‘infidel’ or
‘irreligious’ and also causes terrorist activities in the name of protecting their own religion, values and
beliefs. Every religion has its own beliefs, values, perspectives and ideas in order to make human life
better, to choose the right path, to enrich our knowledge, to give courage, to avoid wrong activities etc.
Though the differences among various religion, we should remember that every religions teaches the
common thing that non-violence, harmony and peace among every people, no discrimination with
each other, to respect every religion, behave cordially, to help not fight, to bring unity and justice, to
bring equality and freedom, human dignity etc. We should take good always and avoid bad. In this
way, we can minimize the challenges of religion and globalization and can bring the culture of peace
and harmony.
MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION

1. What is media?

Media is a means of conveying something, such as a channel of communication. Medias are

technologies for mass communication such as print Media, broadcast media, and digital media. Print
media includes books, magazines, and newspapers, broadcast media involves radio, film, and
television, and digital media covers the internet and mobile mass communication. Marshall McLuhan,
a Canadian philosopher and media theorist declared “the medium is the message”. He attempts to
draw attention to how media as a form of technology reshaped societies and its people.

2. What is a Global Village?

McLuhan described the global village as a situation where all people worldwide would be more
connected through modern technologies. The global village definition implies that even when people
are not physically close, they can still connect, share experiences, and access the same information
through technologies, such as social media. Through these platforms, people can express themselves
and make an impact on any part of the world. The internet has also made it easy for real-time
communication. It has also enabled people to interact with one another, inform others, share their
views, and even form social groups with people far away from them. This interconnectedness through
technology is a major characteristic of a global village.

3. What is Cultural Imperialism?

The term cultural imperialism refers most broadly to the exercise of domination in cultural
relationships in which the values, practices, and meanings of a powerful foreign culture are imposed
upon one or more native cultures. In this broad sense cultural imperialism could be used to describe
examples of the enforced adoption of the cultural habits and customs of actual imperial occupying
powers from antiquity down to nineteenth and twentieth century European colonialism. In practice,
however, the term is nearly always applied to relations between sovereign nation-states from the mid
twentieth century onwards. There is, however, a significant connection between the context of colonial
occupation and these contemporary relations, insofar as the term has commonly (though not
exclusively) been used to criticize the continuing exercise of Western cultural power in the context of
postcolonialism.

4. According to the discussion did cultural imperialism prevail? Why or Why not?

Cultural imperialism is responsible for the spread of some positive values, including
democracy and equal rights, but it also brought about the demise of many indigenous cultures and
languages and provided a justification for colonialism. During the early period of Western colonialism,
cultural imperialism was marked by efforts to forcibly spread Christianity and European economic
values to indigenous societies. The onset of the new imperialism of the nineteenth century saw the
maturation of this trend as imperial states sought to replicate their legal, political, and educational
systems within their colonies. With the rise of the United States as a global power in the twentieth
century, American culture came to dominate the world through an informal and tacit form of cultural
imperialism.