Cultural globalization presentation

Here the notion is that new hybrid cultural forms are emerging with globalization

Rather than the replacement of local culture by a single global/Western culture, we see ‘selective borrowing and transformation’ (Thompson, 1997)

This reading – and readings accenting today’s globalization as marked simply by an explosion of nationalism or a ‘new tribalism’ – of issues around cultural globalization puts forward polarization as the crucial dynamic at work within the contem- porary period