TCW

• Globalization

  1. What is happening in today’s global world?”
  2. Global age – omnipresence
  3. Internet – source of information and events
  4. Involves economy, political systems, and culture
  5. Leads to progress, development, & integration
  6. World shrinkage; distance getting shorter, things moving closer
  7. Broad & inclusive definition – “borderless world”
  8. Reality; its future is more difficult to predict
• Solidity


  • Iceberg melting
  • Great Wall of China
  • Berlin Wall
  • Chinese gov’t claiming west Philippine sea
• Liquid


  • Viral videos
• Flows

  • Globalized foods: sushi, ramen, hamburger, French fries
  • OFW & Chinese communities in the Philippines
• Homogeneity

  Increasing sameness in the world
• Example of Homogeneity

  • Christianity by Spaniards-Philippines
  • Associated products with americans by non-americans
• Heterogeneity

  Integration of local & global cultures
• Heterogeneity

  • Cultural Hybridization
• Dynamics of Local & Global Culture

  • Cultural Differentiation
  • Cultural Hybridization
  • Cultural Convergence
• Cultural Differentiation

  Different cultures
• Cultural Hybridization


  Integration of local & global cultures (challenges religion)
• Cultural Convergence

  Cultural imperialism which critique Deterioration
• Media

  Disseminates religious ideas (tv, radio stations, print media)
• Modern Transportation

  Accompanies Muslims to travel to Mecca
• Modern Technology

  Has helped religions of different forms
• Regionalization

  A group of countries in the same geographically specified area
• Regionalism

  Formal process of intergovernmental collaboration between two or more states