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How does Globalization Affect Cultural traditions? Globalization is very synonym to us since the past few years. It can be defined as process by which regional economies, societies and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation and trade. Globalization also has made a vast change in every angle of humans life and one of it is, our cultural tradition could be affected due to globalization process. Culture is what people eat, how they dress , beliefs they hold and activities they practice. Globalization has joined different cultures and made it into something different.
There are three things that could be affected: Food culture, traditional attire and traditional performing arts. First and foremost, Globalization is the fundamental cause for food culture to be transformed. As we know , food is the oldest global carrier of culture and It reflects the culture and identity of particular races or nation. For instance, “Nasi Lemak resembles the food culture of Malay. Any change in the food that we eat, in its preparation , the way it’s served and consumed diminishes the traditional beliefs of the people.
Today, someone in America can be eating Japanese noodles for lunch while someone in Malaysia is eating classic Italian meatballs. How this phenomenon happens? It shows that, Globalization has caused the spreading of culture throughout the world and food is one of it. People of a particular country not just eat their own foods but also others foreign foods. However, this circumstance could harm our food culture. As there are various kinds of foods, people tend to look for another food that different from their own food, for example fast food like McDonald’s.
This could lead to the abandoning of our own food and consume more foreign foods and then, deteriorate the culture and identity of particular ethnics. Hence, we could say that, Globalization affects cultural tradition in food. Furthermore, Globalization has also spread the foreign fashions throughout the country. Foreign culture especially western culture seen by many peoples as the deals. They feel that international culture as good for them. As a result, they tend to follow these cultures and we can see many people started to wear jeans , skirts and what not.
As Globalization has made the trade became global and faster, cloth products from foreign countries can easily enter this country. So, people can easily get foreign clothes in various supermarket all over the country. As time goes by, people that wear others attire is increasing gradually while on the other hand, the traditional attire are less worn and only be wore in certain places or events, not so frequent as before. As a conclusion, Globalization does affect the traditional attire of particular ethnics as they tend to wear foreign clothes as it is regarded as international attire.
In addition, another effect of Globalization is the deterioration of traditional performance arts due to the entrance of lot of foreign influences in performing arts. One of kinds of performing arts is music. Every ethnic or nation have their own traditional music and it is part of culture. But, in this Globalization era, the traditional music and songs have declined gradually. People nowadays tend to look for modern music like Rock, Pop and RnB rather than hearing to traditional songs.
They are also attracted towards foreign artists such as American artists as they bring modern music that fulfill the need of people in this century. Not just that, local artists also tend to follow western styles of performance when perform on the stages. When this occur, the traditional music will slowly forget by people as they lured with international music style. For instance, “wayang Kulit” is a very happening and famous performance in Malaysia before, but now there are too little performance of this cultural art.
So, we could say that foreign performance arts have made traditional performance arts are being left aside. As a conclusion, It is proven that Globalization caused foreign cultures can easily diffuse to culture in many countries and started to transform them to be different or even vanished them. It is also undeniable that Globalization does affect particular ethnic cultural tradition as people acknowledge the foreign cultures as they think it is good for them. At the same time, their cultural tradition could be abandoned as they practised more foreign cultures than their own culture. ( 648 words)