This document discusses cultural change in the era of globalization. It provides examples of how folk culture, popular culture, and landscapes are converging due to globalization. While globalization is spreading American culture and commodifying traditions, it is also maintaining ties to home cultures through groups like Muslim communities in Europe and Elvis fan clubs. However, globalization raises concerns over cultural homogenization and the loss of local identity and distinctiveness.

1. Cultural Change in an Era of Globalization

2. Michael Jordan Geography Major at UNC

3. Culture shapes globalization and is shaped by globalization Picasso’s Guernica (NOT!)

4. Folk Culture Clothing styles of Guatemala

5. Kufiyah-capped Bedouin shepherds in the desert of northeast Jordan.

6. Amish are the best example in US Pictures to come…

7. Popular Culture

8. Factors influencing the decline of distance decay in innovation diffusion: Colonization and political integration Technological innovation (automobiles, airplanes, satellites, PCs, the Internet…

9. You can use your American Express card for an acupuncture session in China.

10. An automatic teller machine (ATM) disbursing cash in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Are there glazed pigs hanging next to your local ATM?

13. This has created a shift in our cultural identification. We are now part of many different groups that may be separated by some distance. Always Elvis Fan Club

14. Example of Muslims in Europe The forces of globalization are being used to maintain ties with home…

15. Impacts of Globalization of culture: Dominance of American culture in music, television, and film. Concerns over cultural homogenization

17. Commodification; something that previously had not been regarded as something to be bought or sold and turning it into something to be traded in a market economy.

18. Landscape convergence Architectural forms and planning ideals Singapore Frankfurt New York City

20. Landscape convergence Individual businesses and products

25. Judging by the various products being advertised, this scene could have come from a typical American city. This is actually the main shopping district of downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala

26. Landscape convergence Borrowing of idealized landscapes--postmodern landscapes

27. Reactions to Cultural Globalization Problem of how to accept some aspects of globalization without entirely subverting traditional practices. Concern over loss of local distinctiveness and identity (in the core and in the periphery).