Multiculturalism is a relatively recent phenomenon: it appeared in the 1970s in Canada and the United States. Multiculturalism serves both as real social movement, and as a particular flow of thoughts and ideology. In the world such countries make up absolute majority: less than 10% of the countries can be considered as culturally homogeneous.
As for me, the whole process of multiculturalism development occurred because of the rapid globalization processes in the world, and that’s why it would be interesting for me to take this particular lesson. Globalization expands contacts between people making an unprecedented in scope exchange of values, ideas, and ways of life. People travel more and routes of their movements become more extensive.
Today people from the most remote rural areas of China watch TV, Brazilian music is played in Tokyo, African films are shown in Bangkok, the plays of Shakespeare - in Croatia, books on the history of the Arab world are issued in Moscow, CNN news are broadcasted in Amman. Everywhere, people enjoy rich diversity, which is given to them by the age of globalization.
However, special attention should be paid to the problem of influence of globalization on cultural freedom. Previous Human Development Reports were related to sources of economic exclusion - such as trade barriers, closing markets for exports from poor countries - as well as political exclusion, expressed, in particular, in the weakness of developing countries in trade negotiations. Removing barriers in other areas won’t lead to the elimination of the cultural exceptions. This requires new approaches based on a policy of multiculturalism.
Learning more about multiculturalism in the context of globalization would be really interesting and useful in terms of understanding other people’s traditions, values and culture in general better.
It is absolutely normal that there is a demand for the recognition of differences in culture, which is actively debated nowadays. People belong to various cultures and we cannot say that something is ideal and something is not. Ideally, people have to respect each other and respect the cultures they have, their religions and views.
However, what we can see know is that the nature of cultural diversity of our society has been ignored. A lot of countries have been failing to recognize the value of multiculturalism. Critics of multiculturalism argue that as a result of this phenomenon we can observe total destruction of the centuries-old cultural attitudes, developed cultural traditions, because this confusion always leads to homogenization. In their view, if a low level of cultural development of migrants is undoubtedly increasing, the high culture of the target country of multiculturalism invariably falls.
Globalization makes it impossible for the people of different cultures not to communicate. Huge transnational corporations, located in different parts of the world, have to work in a new manner, understanding and expressing respect to absolutely every culture, even if their own beliefs differ. Outsourcing is another aspect of globalization, which cannot happen without multiculturalism. People from countries like India and China have to get used to completely new ways of …