Reflective Writing

In the Arnett’s the psychology of globalization and especially in the Morris’ the myth of unadulterated culture meets the threat of imported media (2002), the idea in which I found interested is cultural hybridisation. This process of cultural mixing accelerated by urbanisation and modern transportation, electronic media and communication cultures in fact not leads to cultural homogenisation.

There are numerous evidences underpining this thesis and I found that my experience accorded with this view.For example, Vietnam with the development in communication infrastructure offers people a greater connectivity and the increasing scope of information available on the web.

The content of these web site which mostly come from Western countries seems to have impact on my cultures .People’s perspective have changed to some extent about living styles which is young people tend to eat more fastfood and choose famous brands to use . To me, I think it is just something happen on the surface of our cultural structure, nevertheless, people find ways of maintaining traditions that are meaningful to them. Moreover, as Morris (2002:34) states that awareness of local values and symbols through constrast with images of foreign practices may even strengthen cultural identities. Particularly, American media packed with images of wealthy or extravagance, bold styles, and strange ideas not only does not affect but also remind them of distinctiveness of their identities. Also, they may even create a side-effect that is protective attitude toward America in some viewers.

Another perspective about cultural hybridisation held by Arnett could be viewed rather opstimically .That is cultural diversity will continue to exist, and most people are likely to develop a hibrid identity includes a local identity alongside global identity(Arnett 2002:41).I quite agreed with this approach.I recognized that my conversations with classmates from other countries about topics on film , music , fashion are easily carried out without any difficuties .This reinforced the theory .Young people in every part of the world develop a global identity that give them a sense of belonging to a worldwide culture and an awareness of the events , pratices, styles and information (Arnett 2002 :20).Then , I could say that hybridization bring more benefits of diversity for cultures rather than fear of homogenisation.

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