The Concept of Globalization

These societies were "a result of historical processes - economic, political, social and cultural"(p277). Therefore, it can be said in broad terms that it is the rising of the west which enables the west, the globalised nations, to gain dominance and near to total erasure of local cultures. With this rising of the west there is also capitalism and imperialism without a doubt and it is though these elements that there is domination and almost total erasure that occurs. Let"s take the Dutch, and their dominance in Java. The Dutch colonised Java and with doing so became dominant of the country and nearly totally erased it"s culture. They capitalized what the country offered them in terms of, raw materials, which were rare or not yet discovered in other parts of the world at the time, and made it their own. They also made the Javanese work in the fields for them in turn for a wage. Unfortunately the Javanese were not given the opportunity to own their own plantations as they didn"t have the means, unlike the richer countries of Europe. The Javanese did lose their land, raw materials and freedom however, they were able to stay in Java and keep to their own religious beliefs and local culture. Unfortunately, it is not the best compensation but it is who they are and that is important because one"s identity is all they really have in such circumstances. .

             "Globalisation has indeed been largely synonymous with the Western modernisation"(Holton p44). So we can see that modernisation is also a part of the process of globalisation according to Holton. Modernisation of the world has happened to be a process which each nation has gone through and goes through when they are ready. Where the modernity begins though if from the central global cultures who then feed it off slowly to other nations. .

             So the west is created and is powerful over those who are inferior to the west.

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