Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Globalisation

Question:

Study the cartoon and answer the following question

The rise of uniform global culture is also called :
(1) Heteronization
(2) Homogenization
(3) Globalization
(4) Fusion

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

2

Explanation:

The cultural effect of globalization leads to the fear that this process poses a threat to cultures in the world. It does so because globalization leads to the rise of a uniform culture or what is called cultural homogenization. The rise of a uniform culture is not the emergence of a global culture.

While cultural homogenization is an aspect of globalisation, the same process also generates precisely the opposite effect. It leads to each culture becoming more different and distinctive.  This phenomenon is called cultural heterogenization.

Globalisation as a concept fundamentally deals with flows. These flows could be of various kinds  — ideas moving from one part of the world to another, capital shunted between two or more places, commodities being traded across borders, and people moving in search of better livelihoods to different parts of the world.