Internationalization of culture is a process during which cultural differences between different regions, peoples and countries are erased. Culture is acquiring general forms on a global scale. On the one hand, this facilitates mutual understanding between people of different cultures, and on the other hand, it makes life in different parts of the planet more monotonous.
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Step 1
The process of internationalization of cultures has existed at all times, throughout the entire history of mankind. It is wrong to think that in the past every nation lived its own distinctive life, knowing nothing about its neighbors. People have always traveled, traded and moved around the Earth, therefore, various knowledge and cultural achievements, although not very quickly, nevertheless, over time, became the property of all mankind. Therefore, the internationalization of culture is directly related to the speed of the process of transferring information.
Step 2
In the past, information could move at the same speed as a person: on a horse-drawn carriage, as part of a caravan, on a sea or river vessel, or on foot - this is how people moved in the past. Then technology began to develop, steam engines and relatively fast ships appeared, and then cars with internal combustion engines, followed by jet planes that could circle the entire planet in less than a day. With the development of the speed of movement, it became easier for people to keep in touch. But still, there were territories for quite a long time, which were quite difficult to reach. Back in the twentieth century, it was possible to find peoples who led an almost primitive way of life.
Step 3
Internationalization of culture has taken on a completely different scale and a completely different speed with the advent of communication technologies. At first it was a telegraph, then a telephone line, radio and television, and today the entire planet is entangled with a system of cables through which data is transmitted at a tremendous speed, cellular communication has become available almost everywhere, and satellite communication is available absolutely in every part of the planet. Now people don't need to move around to communicate information. It is enough to contact the right person using some technology and tell him everything in real time with zero latency.
Step 4
It is with the development of the Internet that the acceleration of the process of internationalization of culture, which is also called globalization, is associated. The national identity of small nations, which includes art, languages and a way of life, is inexorably lost by those who adopt the Western way of life that is dominant in the modern world. This process is unstoppable: you will never prove to an aboriginal on a remote Pacific island that he should live in a hut to preserve his culture, instead of moving into a comfortable, air-conditioned home. Currently, a number of peoples within the framework of national identity are kept primarily by economic conditions. Poverty forces people to lead a traditional way of life, even if they would be happy to give it up.
Step 5
The internationalization of culture is also associated with economic globalization. In the recent past, the world economy was presented to theorists as the interaction of national economies with each other. But in the modern world, more and more often you can find cases when several national economies are united into one whole, gaining a lot from such cooperation. It is easy to see this in the example of the European Union. The internationalization of most processes is an inevitable process from which, despite all the losses, many benefits can be reaped.
