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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Globalization: Existential?



Just as in the articles, these two pictures show opposing views of globalization. Is there really such a great clash that all the world will turn to two hands controlled by the same entity? Or is it a "Ah, Globalization?" issue where we really do not know what it is, yet we are bombarded by the word every single day (just as the windows are being bombarded by the earth). In both articles by Gikandi and Coronil, they argue that globalization is a term that is used not only to bring people together, but to unite them under a common culture. It is not a neccesarily Western Culture but a Universal one where each country is a clash of many other coutries combined. Honestly, I disagree and in my final essay, I will attempt to show why I disagree and how globalization has turned into a word that is so misrepresented in other countries, that it has become almost taboo and unknown. So, does globalization even exist?



Coronil, Fernando. "Toward a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature" Public Culture 12.2 (2000): 351- 374. Print.

Gikandi, Simon. "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality" The South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 627- 658. Print.

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