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    The rapid development of economic globalization and cultural globalization enhances cultural transaction between different countries. Even though in this process culture between different countries still has its own characteristic on the whole‚ the cultural homogenization has been presented in social life‚ especially in the media industry. This essay will discuss the definition of globalization and cultural homogenization‚ and the popularity of Hollywood movies in China‚ the phenomenon of convergence

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    Hybridity

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    According to Bhabha‚ hybridity is the straddling of two cultures and the consequent ability to negotiate the difference. Bhabha developed his concept of hybridity from literary and cultural theory to describe the construction of culture and identity within conditions of colonial antagonism and inequality. For Bhabha‚ hybridity is the process by which the colonial governing authority tries to convert the identity of the colonized within a singular universal framework. The colonizers would look at

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    Homogenization

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    1. Does Globalization affect cultural homogenization? 2. Globalization and culture 1. McDonaldization 2. Glocalization (McDonalds & Coca-Cola) i. Useful for Marketing Purposes – helps companies evaluate their marketing strategies ii. We are all from different cultural backgrounds; it is interesting to see how marketing differs to all backgrounds. 3. References 1. Wang‚ Y. (2007) Globalization Enhances Cultural Identity. Intercultural Communication Studies‚ XVI (1):

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    Mimicry and Hybridity

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    the colonizer approached hybridity. In the effort to constrain hybridity‚ the colonizer categorized the culture of the colonized‚ through mechanisms such as Anderson’s Census‚ Map and Museum. Nevertheless‚ it was to mimicry that the colonizer turned to rule over the colonized‚ at once weakening its claim to authority as mimicry encourages the hybridity that the colonizer resists and equips the colonized to resist the authority of the colonizer. By refusing to accept hybridity yet utilizing mimicry within

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    Mimicry‚ Ambivalence‚ and Hybridity Daniel Dafoe’s 1719 novel‚ Robinson Crusoe‚ is a rich text for understanding the mechanisms of European colonialism and the relation between the colonizer and the colonized (represented by Crusoe and Friday). Dafoe represents Crusoe as being the ultimate incarnation of an Englishman: industrious‚ self-determining and ready to colonize natives. Crusoe encounters a native and he names him Friday‚ teaches him English‚ the words of God‚ and slowly “civilizes”

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    refer to information generally believed as evidence by the mass public. These facts and theories are the factors that control the various paradigms followed by different cultural groups‚ as disciplines are based on concepts derived from diverse ethnic groups with dissimilar times and places. Of the many tools dictating cultural guidelines‚ is the generalization and existence of common groundworks that direct the possession of the branches of knowledge such as those related to methodical belief and

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    Overriding the Power of the Individual‚ or the Dawn of Homogenization: a Research Assignment Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel‚ Brave New World‚ rationalizes the fears of individualistic entrepreneurs cowering in the face of Big Business and Totalitarian dictatorships‚ yet provides a sense of hope when facing adversity through the wonderment of Shakespeare’s texts. Under the law of industrialization‚ all cottage-industries fall. As yield increases‚ price drops‚ and the purpose for the existence

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    Post-Colonialism and Hybridity in a Culture Post-Colonialism is how a culture changes after ideas are dominated by new beliefs on how ways life should be. Hybridity‚ when talking about post-colonialism‚ can be described in two different ways. Hybridity can be viewed as a mixture of groups or cultures in which one then compliments the other so that a new group or culture is formed. Either group or culture will then practice with an understanding from both beliefs. In the other view of hybridity it shows the

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    transcultural-hybrid novels are believed to create hybrid discourses that may destabilize meaning and identity as well. For Moslund‚ hybridity itself is a highly problematic term in this connection. It is used haphazardly in the field of migration literature to denote or connote states of both cultural fusion and multiplication‚ or amalgamation and doubleness (15). What I propose here is that hybridity could be seen as a significant point from which a dialogue can begin with the creation of what has been termed as

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    Hybridity in Ezekiel Mphahlele ’s Down Second Avenue The criticism that Mphahlele ’s awareness of his being a "hybrid ’ person imparts an inability to his being able to "write his story himself " is a criticism contrived out of literal derivations of the Greek components of the word "autobiography". The textual landscape of Down Second Avenue includes many varied and detailed arenas‚ the rural setting and its many dimensions‚ the city and its many dimensions. In the sense that autobiography is

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