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 What is Cultural Globalization? 
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Mass media and communication technologies are the primary instruments for cultural globalization. Global news services such as CNN disseminate the same events and issues across the world including some of the most remote locations in the world. A terrorist attack in a small village school in the Northern Caucasus can hold entire households in Kansas spellbound. This internationalization of news exposes countries to foreign ideas, practices, and lifestyles. The development of computer technology — with its social networking sites, video sharing websites, blogging sites and various other permutations — has served to accelerate cultural globalization as there are no boundaries on the World Wide Web. Advances in transportation have also facilitated physical travel to other countries, which in turn, has encouraged cross-cultural exchanges.

Cultural globalization is perhaps best exemplified by pop culture. The youth in Aruba dance pretty much as the ones in Kyrgyzstan and in Norway. Chinese animé is watched in Chicago, and Mexican soap operas are lapped up by viewers in Manila. The newest release of a musical group is rapidly disseminated worldwide through a variety of video sharing websites. Personalities achieve global pop icon status through the same means.
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