In the article Globalization of Culture Through the Media(2002) ,Kraidy mentions that a common view that cultural globalization is mainly contributed to the powerful influence of the mass media and that has also caused wide debates. Cultural imperialism rooted in political power underwent an earlier stage of prejudice against developing countries ,followed by a commercialization of cultures worldwide.The shift from Cultural imperialism to globalization conveys the limitations of the former.However ,Kraidy thinks that it is still useful in the long run.The relationship between globalization of culture and mass media is hard to answer.International communication through media and technology gets different cultures more involved and intensifies the hybridization,rather than leading to homogenization.Thus, globalization of culture through the media can be regarded as “the coexist of cohesion and fragmentation”.
In the latter part of the article,Kraidy mentions culture hybridization as another perception on globalization.Kraidy also brings in the idea from Hybrid Cultures,Garcia- Candini(1995) to support his agreement that the wide and rapid cultural infiltration is resulted in cultural hybridization.I think it a vital phenomenon caused by globalization under mass media and technology.We ,as the citizens living in the global village can benefit from the vivid and harmonious coexist of a variety of cultures.More importantly,the new generated cultures carry forward better without losing old and authentic tastes.
Various examples can be cited to prove the fast development of cultural hybridization such as one of the best-selling cartoon made by Dreamworks,Kongfu Panda.It is a quite successful example to show how Chinese Kongfu and panda affect the Western cultures in movie making industry .On the other hand , audience may also get a different angle of view on Chinese traditional cultures by following the inspiration of the Western film makers.Another stark instance is the latest sequel of “007” which is shot mostly under the backgrounds of Macao and Shanghai,reflecting a strong and fresh feeling of culture interface .
In this way, by watching them, audience will not get bored towards monotone special effects and story lines since we can have more excitement from combination of wisdom of different cultures,thanks to globalization.
Hence, I agree on Kraidy’s view on cultural hybridization to a large extent. Under hybridization , we can expect optimistically about the variety of culture development .Moreover, newly-generated cultures can be stimulated to develop by integrating differing ones.Thus, with the help of transnational media and technology,both the local and traditional cultures can be conserved better.
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Yuwei,
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Thanks!