Is globalization really Westernization?

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I would take it a step further and say it's Americanization. Though it's not completely one sided. I read an article saying that British English since 1999 has been influencing American English, and words such as 'cheeky' are becoming common here.

Better get used to it. No more populist American "sidewalks", but instead noble British "pavements". It will change the world as we know it.

Jolly good, we could use some refinement.

Would a degree of westernization, or as I prefer to view it export of values be a bad thing?

Indeed, and that dates more to the Neoliberal Era in particular the second decade of that era (1990s)... it was then when it became a buzzword.

Globalization is also islamization.

It seems like America, China, the EU and Islam are all vying for their ideology to dominate the future world state, doesn't it?

QFT

Globalization is when Your Gang or Tribe tries to impose its will on the entire world.

What was it that the Nazis used to say? Heute Deutschland. Morgen dem Weldt. Today Germany, tomorrow the world.

Please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE

What 5 seconds to skip the ad.

ruveyn

Where is ET when we need him ?

Luckily a combo of America and the EU > authoritarians.

America and the EU are authoritarians.

The idea that globalization=westernization is fundamentally flawed because it assumes suits and skyscrapers are western culture.

Are they?

Skyscrapers are built because they are efficient for business. Suits are worn because they are a status symbol. What happened to the architectural styles developed in greece and rome? The intricate patterns developed by the celts? The decorative styles of victorian USA? The various artistic styles of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s? All gone. None of these cultural symbols have any place in a society to afraid of being "weird" that it has allowed itself to become boring. An American who wears a cowboy hat and duster is in just as much danger of being labeled a backwards barbarian as a Japanese immigrant who wears a kimono. Probably more, actually.

The real problem is a conformist mentality that spreads from nation to nation like a pox.

We were not the instigators.

We were the first victims.

I know ... I'm bumping an old thread again but I think that there is one question that must be asked if economic debates go any further.

Does capitalism really become less brutal if capitalist countries cannot trade with each other?

Corporate dominance in commerce is NOT propaganda. It is is real as rain. And there is a good reason for it. The corporations offer economies of scale that smaller firms cannot.

When Rockerfeller achieved dominance of oil production in the U.S. the price of kerosine (at that time the most in demand distillate) went down by 90 percent. And for good reason. The low price lead to large scale purchase which produced mammoth profits for Standard Oil. Big Bad Capitalist. That S.O.B. made kerosine affordable to even the poor peasants.

ruveyn