Source Interpretation Assignment
By: Darius Savage
In our lives, we are subject to lots of advertisement and lots of different cultures. Is globalization happening? If so is globalization a good thing or a bad thing? It's more of an opinion, but there are factors for both sides. In this essay I will be covering both sides, and just try to see if becoming one big culture could actually be a good thing.
In source 1, it says that globalization will unite the whole world together for the better, but wouldn't that destroy our collective identities? Globalization is happening on television, on the internet, in books, and many other forms of media. Globalization could be assimilating different cultures and marginalizing them so that we become one big culture, or it could be making many little cultures through the internet and sharing ideas with specific people that are very similar to us with their thoughts, opinions, and values through things like Facebook and Twitter. I agree that globalization is happening, but it is happening as one culture, one identity, one world, and that is not ideal.
In source 2, There are two pictures. They are both for the children's television show Sesame Street, but they are in two different languages. This is an American television show that was originally aired in English, but then converted to different languages to appeal to different parts of the world. But it is not just Sesame Street. Sesame Street is a media corporation, and lots of other T.V shows are showing in different languages in different countries all over the world. The media could be intentionally or unintentionally causing globalization and making us all become one culture. Media convergence is when one media owns a whole bunch of different media sources, such as magazines, television shows and stations, newspapers, websites, etc. and use it to send the same message, tricking people to think that it is different companies, making them think it's true. Disney, for example, owns almost every different market of media available, ESPN, ABC, tons of different stations. They own Marvel, Star Wars and The Muppet's. If we are all watching the same television show, that definitely destroys our collective identities by teaching children in Asia North American ideas and values.
In source 3, there is an advertisement for Chiquita brand bananas. Canada's number one fruit is banana's and the number one brand is Chiquita. We can't even grow banana's here, but it's still our most popular fruit and they are fairly cheap, which means that the company takes short cuts to make them, including unsafe working conditions, low wages for workers, and bad pesticides, herbicides, and cloning from one banana. The type of banana that we buy today is not the same banana as the type that we bought 80 years ago. A disease infected and completely destroyed and exterminated all that kind and that could easily happen to the current popular banana without pesticides and herbicides, that is potentially harmful to people to eat the banana's and the workers. This is a factor for globalization, because all of the sudden, countries have access to fruits and products they can't grow/produce. Banana's are all over the world, so chances are very few people have never ate a banana.
Globalization is happening right now through media, advertisements and the internet. Becoming one country for one world through globalization is bad. It is important to protect our culture, heritage, and rights as separate countries, to preserve everything who has fought and died for it. Globalization does have some bonuses in that we might never have another war if we became one big culture, but that is probably just a thought. Becoming one culture is not the way to go.
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