Blog 1 - Globalization
What is globalization? Globalization is very broad. It has to do with the evolution that our world and the world population have made with the influence of culture, politics, and the economy. Cultural globalization In recent works, we mainly focused on cultural globalization. Cultural globalization is the most visual part of globalization. You see this everywhere, just look at the clothes you wear or the music you listen to. Westernization An important term in globalization is westernization, westernization means countries from the east, taking over the culture of the west. This is due to the history where western countries had a lot of power, these countries started to colonize much weaker countries for raw materials, goods, and services. Since western countries were further developed, they could obtain raw materials and goods from these less developed countries. They eventually turned these raw materials into actual products and distributed them all over the world. This gave them eve