Globalisation does not necessarily result in the domination and erasure of local cultures, is a positive statement one can make from the reading Understanding Globalisation: History and Representation in the Emergence of the World as a Single Place, (Holton 1998). We will be looking at where globalisation comes from, or as far back as we can trace it in history. Globalisation engenders a resistance which can take the best of the global and reinforce and revitalise the potency of local cultures. Also, with looking at the reading mentioned previously and defining the term globalisation one can see that it would be quite the best of the global cultures which are taken and reinforced and revitalised into the local cultures, that is that my understanding of the term 'global' in the question is to mean 'global cultures'. As we all know, it is a simple fact of history which is able to show that global cultures are wh

"Globalisation is not only about structures, institutions, and networks, but also about the way in which we think of social life and our place in it" (Holton, p33). This statement is however not of Holton's thoughts, but those of Roland Robertson, 1992. From Robertson's view I am able to conclude that globalisation created peace amongst nations and over time a global culture formed, with its aims to represent the world as a single place.

With the expansion of capital export from Western countries to inferior countries with local culture, is a great economic best that global cultures can give to local cultures. Offering them the opportunity to experience the use and profit that can be made from the capital. From our global history we can see that the economic control that the West took on through globalisation was much to the benefit of those local cultures who economically could not function properly. The Bretton Woods institutions, specifically, the World bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), played a key role in "re-estabilizing the post-war economy on economically liberal market-orientated principles"(Holton, p48). From what Philip Curtin says it is obvious that any of the best from global cultures would result in the revitalization of local cultures. "No human group could invent by itself more than a small part of its cultural and technical heritage" (1984, p1), so we can see that alone, none of the local cultures would have survived the wars or until today.

Globalisation is historical, and was present in the vast past of the world. It is through the history that we can see globalisation did exist and took several forms, history, politics, economics, religion, capitalism, social behaviour, modernisation, and imperialism. These were all present in history from the beginning. There was the developing of 'The West' wh

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