Cultural imperialism-define as promoting, distinguishing, separating, or artificially injecting ones culture or language into another. It is usually seen in the case of a large, economically or militarily powerful nation influencing a smaller, less important one. One way of influencing the citizen of other country is through media. Media have the ability to change a person's perception which slowly result in culture dilution.
It seems that cultural imperialism has always been related to the western part of the world. Showing the unjust world of political and economic structure stabilization. United State of America is one of the most influencing agent of cultural imperialism. Due to the fact that they have so many media production company, the amount of media works produce each year constantly influence the world with their culture and 'the American dream'.
As cultural imperialism becomes more and more common, the traditional cultural and perception of one has been decrease over the years. One example of these are the nonya in Singapore. Many have abandon their original way of living to adapt to a more technology and westernize way.
Government of many countries now try to stop cultural imperialism by setting up of a system that restrict the amount of non-local programs on air. They then provide subsidies to local media producer in making new program.
The American's cultural imperialism still continue to dominate Asian television and program flow and airtime. These is cause by some countries do not have enough technology ability to create programs in bulk. This result in the social gaps of developing and developed country.
Is cultural imperialism all bad? Or do they have their positive aspect? Please leave a comment ^ ^
bad points and good points really.
ReplyDeleteit all depends on the nation's people.
its not just media that the government can use to retain the local country's tradition.
Events or festivities that are glam enough, or creative enough to grasp the interest of the young people are needed too.
These events concerning culture and tradition can be fused with a little bit of other cultures which the people might take interest in, but not too much that it becomes the alien culture.
dunnoe how to put it in words well but, it takes more then just the media to totally de-root a tradition or culture
it is not necessary the media fault, there are also cultural exchanges going around in schools, which maybe youngster may thing that what they do overseas is more interesting compared to what they have been doing at home. Many times it is also the "monkey see monkey do" trick, whereby everybody is doing to same thing, so as to not feel left out, that particular person might follow, in this case, culural
ReplyDeleteI find that the most important of all is how a personal feel about its own cultural. With the advance of technology, even if the country decided to censor the tv programs, the citizen still can get them through the net. It's some how waste of time
ReplyDeleteCan't help but agree to what kelvin had said... its so true that they are just wasting their time & resources. I mean with the access of internet what can you miss?
ReplyDeletethere's still a hugh cultural influence in singapore i suppose.
ReplyDeletelook at geylang serai?
why is govt spending so much $ to keep preserving and upgrading that place?
not only upgrading high rise flats..but to preserve the "kampong" image too..
and the local tv series which caught so much attention..
the little nonya? i'm sure its very familar who are singaporeans right?
even if u don't watch it,u shuld have heard of it before.
:D
everyone are so crazy abt culture stuffs!
just that they dont show it out.(:
socialisation refers to the process in which individuals learn and eventually conform to the norms and values of the social group that they live in. According to Goffman, identities are not fixed but fluid and changing. individuals are actors who perform differently to different given situation. While Talcott Parsons believed that social instituitions define roles for people and it is through socialisation people learn these roles.
ReplyDeletehmm i still remember the big hoo haa when little nonya is shown in singapore... have to say because of this show,some then start to show little interest in our culture. the part where one decide to show his/her culture depends on themselves on how they want to portray their behavior.
ReplyDeleteAs technonlogy improves, people tend to neglect the culture. I think it is not totally the media's fault as there are also many external factors to why culture is diminishing in this society. Eg. Inter-racial marriage? When one marries another with a another culture, they have to follow it?
ReplyDeleteadxuan have a point there. It is hard to follow one's culture when there is a inter-racial marriage. Like if you marry a Muslim, you need to convert into their religion. Or singaporean working overseas and meeting their mate there. It is hard to really follow a culture in one way when you are living in another.
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