Globalization

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.

DaYeonChoi (talk)21:05, 23 November 2016

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.

BoLi (talk)04:33, 24 November 2016