What is globalization in cultures?
Advocates of globalization insist that free trade and free markets dont weaken or spoil other cultures, they improve them. Proponents explain that trade cultivates wealth. Wealth frees the worlds poorest people from the daily struggle for survival, and allows them to embrace, celebrate, and share the art, music, crafts, and literature that might otherwise have been sacrificed to poverty. Opponents of globalization express great concern that the mega-store effect is occurring on a global level. The anti-globalization groups argue that the playing field isnt level. Since free trade is partial to larger economies, the predominant western influence suppresses the cultures and traditions of the under-developed nations. Both sides generally agree that subsidies, tariffs, and other protectionist policies by well-developed countries against goods commonly produced in the third world (textiles, for example) stifle both culture and economic growth in the poorer nations. Slowly and methodically i
