Thursday, February 4, 2010

Is there a GLOBAL culture?

As we all know the levels of culture are from very specific to general, family-community-historical-global; but during the class about this topic, John Read made a very interesting question, "Is there a global culture?"

While studying for the exam, I asked myself that same question. After researching a little about the topic, I came to my own conclusions. On one side, I think that there is a global culture, but on the other I think that there might not be one.

I think that it does exist because, well, we are all humans and we all have certain characteristics that make us a "culture", we care for the same things, worry for the same things, have the same necesities, but while I was thinking about this, I remembered that a culture is not only caring, worrying and needing the same things; it is formed by a lot more elements, like: the symbols, language, values, etc.. and all the other things we discussed at the class. As I remembered this, I thought well, there might not be a global culture. Why? Because well, we do not share all this things globally. There are A LOT more things that make up a culture and globally we do not share it. We all have a different way of seeing things (cultural relativism). For us something might be good, while for another country it might be really bad. We might agree in things but we are COMPLETELY different in a lot of senses.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We will look more at global culture when we study globalisation. Thank you for this contribution.