Old 05-21-2004, 04:32 PM   #1
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Here's a fun one. I was talking about this in my international relations class with the teacher the other day. We started talking about transnationalism and the blending of all nations into one culture. These are my thoughts.

Discussions of the evolution of an amalgamated global culture inevitably include a great deal about McDonald's, basketball, hip-hop, e-mail, and other such aspects of pop culture as well as commentary about more overtly political transnational phenomena such as the global reach of CNN. It would be an error to suppose that such a discussion of the impact of burger and the NBA on global culture is an attempt to trivialize the subject. Indeed, the potential impact of common culture on cooperation set off a series of columns in the New York Times entitled "Big Mac 1" and "Big Mac." The columnist formulated a quasi-tounge-in-cheek "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" based on the observation that no two countries which had McDonald's had ever fought a war. Not all analysts, it should be noted, agreed with the theory.

More substanively, there is a long line of political theory that argues that the world will come together through myriad microinteractions rather than through such macroforces of political intergration as the United Nations. This school of thought believes that political communities are built by social communities and that those social communities come together through the process of interaction, familiarization, and amalgamation of diverse existing communities. Scholars who examine this bottom-up process look for evidence in such factors as the flow of mail(Email now ) between countries, the spread across borders of styles of dress, and growing similarities in what people eat. In essence they would argue, you cannot have a United States of Europe until Europeans share a common culture or a United States of the World until everyone becomes more alike.

What do you think the future of transnationalism has in store for us?

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Old 05-21-2004, 04:44 PM   #2
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1) Interracial marriage/procreation will eliminate the idea of "race" within 30 generations.
2) In addition, cultural identities will blur. As Americanism spreads elsewhere, Latin culture is seeping into America.
3) As more countries adopt freedom and democracy, expect more widespread immigration...
4) made easier by the simplification of language. In 300 years I expect only one language will be spoken worldwide, which will probably have a construction similar to English but a vocabulary assimilated from all Romance languages.
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Chardish, I don't believe 1 language will ever be spoken, and if so it is a sad world we are headed towards. As people always want to start their own trends and not live like their parents, like all things, dialects will always be forming and transforming. Some languages may die, especially if the world makes greater advances towards development and becomes a better place in terms of living conditions across the world, but there will always be language and culture differentiation, and that is a good thing.
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While transnationalism has immediate cultural effects on other countries, I don't think we'll ever see a disappearance of cultural identities.

National and cultural pride will keep countries from becoming like other countries without a major idealism shift many generations from now (comparing cultural distinctions now to those of a few hundred years ago, I don't want to discount the possibility).

Considering the Latin culture... Everything we see in pop culture today (from Latin music to Latin clothing) is just a fad; it will be forgotten and perhaps revived, but it's not permanent. That aside, what about the Mexicans and Puerto Ricans flooding into our country and their impact on the American identity? I say their impact is negligible. Even down here in Texas, Mexicans are content to live amongst themselves in Spanish neighborhoods. Maybe if they were more forced to adopt American culture or contribute more to it we would see a blending of cultures, but America makes it easy to not do so by not having an official language and printing official documents in several languages. It's only natural for like to associate with like, and that's a big reason why there won't be blurry cultural lines.

The transnationalism about which Spec speaks seems more of a dispersion of ideas, not ideals, and ideals are on what cultures are based.

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that would suck.

we need our histories, cultures. the japanese, the americans, russians, germans, latin, africans, american indians, jews and even the french. we need croussants...and ramen and these forein luxuries. if the entire world became one, then noone really has much of an identity. countries will always insist on being independant, as time has gone on, there have been more divisions, more countries and cultures created, not the other way around.

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Considering the Latin culture... Everything we see in pop culture today (from Latin music to Latin clothing) is just a fad; it will be forgotten and perhaps revived, but it's not permanent. That aside, what about the Mexicans and Puerto Ricans flooding into our country and their impact on the American identity? I say their impact is negligible. Even down here in Texas, Mexicans are content to live amongst themselves in Spanish neighborhoods. Maybe if they were more forced to adopt American culture or contribute more to it we would see a blending of cultures, but America makes it easy to not do so by not having an official language and printing official documents in several languages. It's only natural for like to associate with like, and that's a big reason why there won't be blurry cultural lines.
I disagree. Take a look at the sheer number of latinos (heck, there's more latinos than black people in the US as of 2002). Also take into account of the average age of latinos, 24-30 years old, depending on the specific group. As those extremely young people grow up and get jobs, they're going to have a huge impact on corporate life.

The proliferation of Lainto culture is only starting. Now that the latino middle class is maturing, they're moving more into the heart of America.
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SotN I agree with you on that point. I live in South Florida and the Latin American culture is extremely prolific down here. I wouldn't be surprised if it spread all the way to northern Florida in the next 50 years.

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