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Globalization and Culture M. Mobin Shorish June 4, 1999 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Link: http home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/cice/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2-2-3.pdfParagraph: 4 Line: 1-2“Globalization and Culture demands some degree of structural changes in the various dimensions of a society. As can be expected the effects of these structural changes on the normative and value systems (and their attendant institutions) of the non-Western societies are most dramatic” (Shorish, 1999).Shorish (1999) argues that structural changes in different attributes of society are necessary to facilitate the process of globalization.

These changes must take place for globalization to have a significant impact on culture. These structural changes will have strong influence on the norms and values associated with non-Western society as these are more dramatic ones. As far as my opinion is concerned I am an opponent of globalization to some extent. I do not want globalization to have significant impacts on the cultural values of societies. A major reason behind development of this disliking for globalization is a fact that it has destroyed precious cultural values of different societies all over the world.

I think people have become more materialistic and selfish, as a consequence of globalization. On the one hand globalization has contributed to generate enough revenues for big enterprises of the world and on the other; it has deprived many people off the basic necessities of life, by controlling their assets illegally without having made reasonable payments. ReferenceShorish, M. M. (1999). Globalization and culture. Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2(2), 15-24.