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Globalization since the 1940s - Cultural Globalization

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What resistances were there against cultural globalization?

- Some regions were more receptive to global culture than others. Wealth was a factor - global cultural products cost money - but so was prior cultural conditioning.
- Rural areas had far less access to global culture than urban centers did; even in 2009, only about a third of the world's population had any contact with the Internet, to take one striking example of cultural constraints, though access to television and radio were more widespread.

What was emerging in terms of cultural globalization around 1940s?

Something like global science and medicine did emerge. Scientists from many nations collaborated in major laboratories, even when sponsored by a single national agency.

When did acupuncture began to spread? Where did it come from?

- The rise of global roles for China included growing popular interest in Chinese medical approaches including acupuncture, with centers widely available in many countries outside East Asia.
- Acupuncture began to spread in the United States in the 1980s; by the early twenty-first century almost 9 million Americans had received treatment, a major example of mutual flow in science broadly construed.

What did critics say about global consumerism?

Global critics abounded of excessive materialism and loss of local identities as well as what seemed to be clear violations of traditional Christian or Islamic morality.

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Globalization in World History | 9780367279868 | Peter N Stearns

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