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ONE WORLD OR MANY? THE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE FUTURE. I. Introduction. The Paradox: Globalization: growth of something to a global or world-wide scale Mass media, internet, etc. Expanding supranational organizations: European Union, NAFTA, etc. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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I. Introduction

• The Paradox:– Globalization: growth of something to a global or world-wide

scale• Mass media, internet, etc.• Expanding supranational organizations: European Union,

NAFTA, etc.– Devolution: the breakdown of larger

cultural/political/economic units into smaller ones• Peaceful resurgent nationalism: Czech Rep., Slovakia,

former Soviet Union republics, etc.• Violent resurgent nationalism: Bosnia, Kosovo, Basques,

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1818thth & 19 & 19thth Century Globalism Century Globalism

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Colonialism – Imperialism!Colonialism – Imperialism!

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I. Introduction

• Multinational corporations– Many have greater economic power than most

countries– Operate beyond the power of any one country:

• To regulate• To moderate• To influence• To balance interests

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Detroit - G.M. Headquarters

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Toyota Headquarters in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan

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Economic power of Global Corporations

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Actually Six Defining Features of Globalization

1. Involves global scale interactions among cultural, economic, political and environmental phenomena.

2. Relentless movement – money, people, info. Etc.3. The effects are felt unevenly4. Transnational corps. are the main driving force5. Local and national efforts to restrain it6. While rooted in internationalism, it is

qualitatively different from it.8

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II. Globalization: the end of geography?

• The case for one world– Quotes from those that believe we

will become one world• 1951: George Kimble, In the future there would be,

“no independent, discrete units . . . No worlds within world.”

• 50 years later: Joel Swerdlow, used these terms – “Global culture,” “vanishing cultures,” “a world together,” and “ we are all in each other’s backyard.”

• Pico Iyer notes that, “everywhere is so made up of everywhere else.” 9

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II. Globalization: the end of geography?

• The case for one world– Acculturation and assimilation- Acculturation: a culture adapts to a new cultural

trait – technology, food, sport, architecture, religion

- Assimilation: a smaller group adapts to/becomes part of a larger group: people move to U.S. and eat McDonalds and speak English

– Urbanization – more and more people are moving to cities.

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Blending of Cultures

• Australian Aboriginal children play with a laptop computer. Will this reduce the world’s cultural heterogeneity?

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Local resistance to globalization

• Zapotista commandos negotiating with the Mexican government over cultural & economic rights.

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International Ladies Garment Workers Union

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II. Globalization: the end of geography?

• Many worlds– Most geographers believe many

worlds will continue to exist– Interaction with outside influences

produces new cultural expressions– Globalization produces different results in

different lands

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Interaction with outside influences

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Interaction with outside influences

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Diffusion

• A process by which something spreads from one place to another over time.

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Diffusion of Religion

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