Globalization

I believe that western culture will maintain a dominant role in globalization so long as other cultures continue to compare themselves to the west. When one hears the term globalization, what typically comes to mind is the pervasiveness of western culture and the impact it has on many other cultures and societies around the world. What is interesting is the pace at which globalization from the west is occurring; countries in Asia and Europe have not entirely shown to progress as quickly. Though many societies might resent the United States, for example, for its superiority in the global market, most countries embody U.S. culture through the media. As mentioned above, the media influences and reinforces people's perceptions of western supremacy. I do not necessarily think that other cultures cannot gain an upper hand in globalization in comparison to the west, but I do believe that it will require great effort to suppress the economic, political, and cultural dominance of the west.

I recently wrote an essay on this topic of how Western culture is dominating through soft power such as Hollywood films. We tend to view the world through white savior's eyes and that the 'other' cultures are devalued and degraded through the portrayals of negative stereotypes. In order to promote globalization and understand different cultures/values, we need to maintain multicultural awareness and remain sensitive to all audiences when responding to social media posts.

The Western culture is definitely having deep impact on the process of globalization. However I don't really think we tend to view the world through white savior's eyes. This really depends on what country you come from and what kind of education you received, for example, I got a lot of Korean friends who come to UBC for university education. It seems to me that they are all very proud of their own culture and didn't devalued or degraded their culture. However, it's true that western culture have different judgement on eastern culture.Same as eastern culture to Western culture. I like your point of raising multicultural awareness, but I am really pessimistic about the current situation and don't really know how we should do this.