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How Has Globalization Caused a Loss of Culture
By Nabila Nali*
Morocco World News
Tangier, Morocco, October 26, 2011
This is a true problem that I’ve beenseeing all over the world, and the main reason behind it is, unfortunately, Globalization. I’m no anti-globalization activist or anything. In fact, I’m totally forglobalization, economically and industrially speaking, but we can’t neglect the negative effects it has on culture and society.
In this globalized world, cities arebecoming clones of each other, and people are converging into fake stereotypes; gone are the unique cities that carry so much history and culture in every corner. Lost arethe enriching cultural differences and specificities that make a society uniquely what it is. Morocco looks like Spain.
London looks like Paris, which looks likeMadrid. Restaurants serving this or that country’s traditional food are drowned out by the huge fast food chains. Beautiful traditional clothing is lost between the newbulk-made looks created by the big brands, people look alike, eat alike and dress alike whether they’re in New York, New Delhi or MOROCCO.
We’re losing one of thethings that count the most: our identity, the uniqueness in us, which makes us special and allows us to stand out from the crowd. They say that one has to be affiliated tosome culture or else one is lost no matter how good or bad it is. I want to be judged by my origin.
Again, I’m all for cultural exchange and value it dearly, and I,more than anyone else, treasure the notion of a global citizen. But still that doesn’t mean letting go of our unique cultures to adopt a unified fake money-driven one.
By Nabila Nali*
Morocco World News
Tangier, Morocco, October 26, 2011
This is a true problem that I’ve beenseeing all over the world, and the main reason behind it is, unfortunately, Globalization. I’m no anti-globalization activist or anything. In fact, I’m totally forglobalization, economically and industrially speaking, but we can’t neglect the negative effects it has on culture and society.
In this globalized world, cities arebecoming clones of each other, and people are converging into fake stereotypes; gone are the unique cities that carry so much history and culture in every corner. Lost arethe enriching cultural differences and specificities that make a society uniquely what it is. Morocco looks like Spain.
London looks like Paris, which looks likeMadrid. Restaurants serving this or that country’s traditional food are drowned out by the huge fast food chains. Beautiful traditional clothing is lost between the newbulk-made looks created by the big brands, people look alike, eat alike and dress alike whether they’re in New York, New Delhi or MOROCCO.
We’re losing one of thethings that count the most: our identity, the uniqueness in us, which makes us special and allows us to stand out from the crowd. They say that one has to be affiliated tosome culture or else one is lost no matter how good or bad it is. I want to be judged by my origin.
Again, I’m all for cultural exchange and value it dearly, and I,more than anyone else, treasure the notion of a global citizen. But still that doesn’t mean letting go of our unique cultures to adopt a unified fake money-driven one.
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