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A Study of Oneself
Posted by: | CommentsExpose yourself to a foreign culture and study your subjects, and yourself, at the same time.
Are you a university student somewhere in our globalized world? Do you want to study in a foreign culture? The excitement of being in new cultures results in thousands of students to travel across the world. One advantage of such an experience which is not often talked about, is that the travelling student also gets a hard-to-find opportunity to know him- or herself from a new perspective. It is an opportunity to see how one can manage when coming alone to a new culture, as a representative of the culture “back home”. This is even better due to the development of cooperation skills with people with different cultural backgrounds.
When travelling as a student to another country, where there are different rules and guidelines for university studies, one can feel that life in general, and studies in particular, become more intensive. Without the safety of being in the safety of the cultural sphere in the home country, it is easy to start comparing one’s own behaviour with the new and unknown. Strengths and weaknesses in the personality that usually fall into the category “normal behaviour” become very noticeable when the rug, the origin, is pulled away from under one’s feet, and the floor, the world, is exposed in it’s many different nuances.
Globalization Consequences on Cultural Studies
Posted by: | CommentsIt is fair to say that the impact of globalization in the cultural sphere has, most generally, been viewed in a pessimistic light. Typically, it has been associated with the destruction of cultural identities, victims of the accelerating encroachment of a homogenized, westernized, consumer culture. This view, the constituency for which extends from (some) academics to anti-globalization activists (Shepard and Hayduk 2002), tends to interpret globalization as a seamless extension of – indeed, as a euphemism for – western cultural imperialism. In the discussion which follows I want to approach this claim with a good deal of skepticism.
Postmodern culture, the politics of post-structuralism and the influence of globalization on identity are topics that have received much critical attention and have given rise to complex debates. Whether in the field of cultural and media studies, (post)colonial discourse analysis or aesthetics, these discussions are often perceived as being extremely complicated, confusing or removed from everyday reality. The subject of postmodernism is no longer restricted to learned debates by intellectual elites: Its appearance in mass media discussions concerning topics as diverse as architecture, drama, fashion, literature, music or film has become almost a daily occurrence. The importance of debates on the cultural impact of television is self-evident in the light of television being “an asset open to virtually everybody in modern industrialized societies and one which is increasing its visibility across the planet” (Barker, The Cultural impact of television, 3).
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