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Globalization has brought about significant impacts on both culture and economy worldwide. With the advancement of technology and transportation, people from different parts of the world can easily connect and communicate with each other. This has led to the exchange of ideas, values, and traditions among various cultures.全球化对文化产生了深远的影响。
随着科技和交通的进步，世界各地的人们可以轻松地联系和交流。
这导致了各种文化之间观念、价值观和传统的交流。
As cultures interact and influence each other, it has resulted in a more diverse and interconnected global society. People are exposed to different customs, cuisines, languages, and practices, which enrich their experiences and perspectives. However, this cultural exchange also raises concerns about cultural homogenization and the loss of traditional identities.随着文化的互动和相互影响，世界变得更加多元化和联系紧密。
人们接触到不同的习俗、美食、语言和实践，这丰富了他们的经验和视角。
The Impact of Globalization on CultureWith globalization, people have more opportunities to cooperate and exchange. Many people believe that globalization benefits the development of their native culture since people can experience culture from different nations during the international cooperation and international exchange. While conceding globalization is to some extent beneficial to culture, however, I think it has more negative effects on culture, which are as follows.In the first place, native language which is the most important part of culture has been threatened by English which is regarded as the worldwide medium of communication due to globalization. A growing number of people are being encouraged to use or send messages in English rather than in their own language. In China, the good English proficiency has become a necessary qualification when an institution or a company recruits a new staff in order to meet the need of globalization. It seems to be reasonable that language uniformity is an inevitable result from globalization. But , if we ignore this threat, it is not hard to image that our own language will be eliminated one day.In the second place, some traditional views which are important parts of native culture have been influenced by western culture because of globalization. For instance, for the young generations, the attitude to sexual behavior before marriage has changed. In fact, the traditional sexual morality is being damaged. It is reported that there are more than 40% young people who think the sexual behavior before marriage is acceptable. In addition, due to the impact of western culture, young people start to admire the extreme individualism and the hedonism which are harmful to the development of society.Finally, globalization hinders the development of some native cultural industries. A good example is from film industry. Thanks to globalization, people have all kinds of choices to watch movie. However, people would choose the overseas films rather than the films made in China. This is harmful to domestic film industry. Another example is that a traditional opera, Peking opera, is being forgotten by young generations since they are attracted by western opera and pop music. If this condition continues, Peking opera is likely to disappear from Chinese culture in the future because of the lack of heirs.From what has been discussed above, I can come to a conclusion that globalization brings about many harmful effects on culture in terms of native language, some traditional views and some native cultural industries. We should realize these negative effects while taking part in the international cooperation and exchange and should try our best to reduce them. Only in this way, can we promote the development of our native culture.。
Discuss the impact of globalization on China fr om cultur e per spective1. IntroductionFormer UN Secretary General Annan once pointed out that globalization is an actual event which would have huge effects on the future of human race. Globalization is led by western countries, so developing countries have less effect in globalization (Lieber & Weisberg, 2002). Globalization becomes a great threat and challenge to both economy safety and sovereignty of developing countries, as well as their cultural security (Compton, 2000). As the world’s largest developing country, China goes faster than any other developing country in the progress of globalization. Coupled with the complex environment of globalization, many social facets in China are being or have been deeply influenced by globalization. Among these influences, Chin a’s cultural development is in a much more dangerous situation. Globalization is a actually, double-edged sword, which brings people both challenges and opportunities.2.Challenges of globalization to Chinese culture2.1 Decline of traditional festivalsIn the process of globalization and with the expansion of cultural communication, western culture sweeps China and of course, this is normal. Only absorbing and integrating foreign culture element can guarantee a national culture a remarkable development. In this culture exchanging progress, people should hold on to the bottom line of national culture. However, as western festivals enter China, more and more Chinese favor foreign festivals rather than their own. Some are indifferent to traditional Chinese festivals and even forget them (Jie, 2003). Certainly, the hype of foreign festivals by the advertisers is one of the reasons. However, what is deeply reflected by this phenomenon is that Chinese are showing a status of bigotry and inapplicability to the globalization (Liu, 2004). It is the bigotry and inapplicability that leads to the great endangerment of tradition al Chin ese f estiv als.2.2 Insufficient cultural creative abilityChinese culture and technology cannot make a breakthrough during the feudalism times (Huot, 2000). In the 21th century, feudal forces no longer exist. However, Chinese technology, along with the culture, is still on hold, which may be caused in part by globalization. In the process of globalization, China has introduced a great number of modern cutting-edge technologies. This would have been a good thing. However, the problem is that the dependence on foreign science and technology is too large (Huot, 2000). People only pay attention to introduction but they barely devote themselves to analyzing and digesting the essence of these technologies. This phenomenon directly impairs the ability of self-depen dent innov ation.2.3 Insufficient cultural autonomyThe process of cultural globalization will inevitably lead to conflicts of various ethnic cultures round the world. A typical example is that the US-led western culture spreads to occupy the dominance of the global culture. It stands in a strong position, forming the so-called "cultural hegemony" (Compton, 2000). Western culture has a powerful integration capability. It strongly radiates other developing countries on national culture. Chinese people are attracted by the highly developed western culture. After reexamining lagging factors within Chinese culture, phenomenon of westernization appears on the surface of Chinese material culture (Guthrie, 2012). For example, dissimilation in language and character, craze for Chinese brands in English names, going abroad craze and so on. This also explains that China is influenced by western capitalist culture when it comes to the development of material culture. Facing the highly developed western capitalist material culture, Chinese people are in an extremely passive state. This penetrates further into the deep layer of Chinese culture. Chinese people are lack of autonomy in the development process of national culture.3. Opportunities for Chinese culture brought by globalization3.1 Government’s powerful guiding func tion to the development of national cultureAmong the course of reform and opening up, Chinese government introduced a series of measures for the preservation and development of national culture. Through cultural legislation, cultural protection systems and policies, cultural management and other means, China had effectively resisted globalization cultural risk to Chinese culture. It shows a powerful guiding function for the development of Chinese culture. For instance, central and local governments at all levels actively exploit the advantages of unique culture to declare world heritages (Bergsten, 2008). From the terms of legislation, Chinese government has already set the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Sweeping-Tomb Festival and other traditional festivals as national festivals. This indicates that Chinese government begins to attach importance to traditional Chinese culture.3.2 Radiant national culture on the world stageChina's national culture has some backward cultural factors, but overall, China's national culture still has a lot of essence. And some people hold a kind of “western fawning" in mind. This exhibits a shortage of national self-confidence and national pride. China, an ancient civilized country with 5000 years of history, was long regarded as a mysterious nation by westerners. With the accelerating process of globalization, exchange and dissemination between Chinese culture and foreign cultures move on rapidly. For example, China has built up many Confucius Institutes in many countries in the world. A craze of learning Chinese is sweeping the world. More and more foreigners are attracted by the unique charisma of Chinese culture. This phenomenon demonstrates a Chinese saying, “the more ethnic, the more cosmopolitan” (Pieterse, 2009). Chinese classical Confucian culture of harmony is a great reference to solving the conflict in international relations at present. Chinese culture has shown a dazzling brilliance through international cultural exchange and interaction in the process of globalization on the world stage.4. National culture protection strategies under the background of globalizationGlobalization is indeed a profound historic change of society. Exploring for the protection strategies of ethnic culture in the process of globalization has aconsiderable strategic significance for China's own development. In the context of globalization, through reasonable and effective means, protecting the nation's outstanding characteristics of cultural helps promote Chinese fine national cultural traditions, maintain a relatively stable social and cultural system, thus to contribute to the consolidation of the stability of the regime (Lu & Lu, 2001). It also contributes to respect and protect China’s ethnic excellent cultures, thus to build a harmonious culture.4.1 Further deepen government’s guiding role in national cultu re protectionOn the one hand, government should do good advocacy and mobilization. Advocating the social significance and importance of the protection of the excellent national culture through specialized agencies and a variety of convenient social media tools to the general public; mobilizing the public to protect the excellent national culture through a variety of strong public opinions. On the other hand, government should enhance its administrative management skill in protecting national culture (Jie, 2003). Government can form an expert group to develop more scientific national culture protecting policies.4.2 Further strengthen legislation to protect national cultureIn order to ensure the protection of national culture and related management policies have legal basis, China's legislature should accelerate the pace of legislation protecting national culture according to China’s current situation. Through related scientific and reasonable cultural legislation, China is able to make sure that each level of government could do its job normatively and scientifically in this protection (Huot, 2000). Only the normalization and scientificalness in national culture protection process are secured, will it be possible to win the protection more support and participation from the public, thus to achieve reasonable and effective protection for the excellent national culture.4.3 Positively explore the joint points between foreign cultures and national cultureProtection of national culture does not mean denying the entire foreign cultureinvasion (Guthrie, 2012). If people want the national culture to grow and spread, sometimes it requires cultural workers to pay attention to seeking joint points between foreign cultures and native culture. Generally, there are much more advanced elements in foreign cultures. Cultural workers should extract the essence of foreign culture, take current situation of national culture as reference and then find out joint points between the two cultures. Under such circumstance, Chinese culture can be more vigorous and energetic.4.4 Transform the protection of national culture into a turning point for economic developmentCulture, as an industry, will bring very significant social and economic benefits through rational exploitation. In the process of protecting national culture, people can dig through the depth of inherent characteristics of national culture to develop a variety of cultural and ethnic characteristics-related tourism (Liu, 2004). People can do works about arts and crafts design, production and sales whose theme is associated with excellent national culture. By transforming the protection of national culture into a turning point for economic development, government let people, especially people who love and have a good knowledge of national culture, get considerable social and economic benefits, thus to attract more and more people to pay attention to the protection work of national culture.5.ConclusionChinese people have a brilliant and 5000 year-long history, which brought the eastern world even the entire globe a wide and profound influence. In the international background of globalization, development of Chinese culture is facing severe challenges as well as opportunities. It is necessary for Chinese people to seize all opportunities the globalization has provided, with the brave spirit of openness, to absorb the essence of western culture and to emphasize the intrinsic spiritual values of national culture at the same time, thus to obtain new development opportunities during the integration with foreign cultures and to realize the modernization of Chinese culture.References:Bergsten, C. F. 2008. China's rise: Challenges and opportunities. Peterson Institute. pp. 2-65.Compton, R. W. 2000. East Asian democratization: impact of globalization, culture, and economy. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 18-91.Guthrie, D. 2012. China and globalization: the social, economic and political transformation of Chinese society. Routledge. pp. 1-124.Huot, M. C. 2000. China's new cultural scene: A handbook of changes. Duke University Press. pp. 134-170Jie, L. U. 2003. An Answer to Globalization: Enhancing Culture Self-consciousness Peking University Education Review, 1(6), pp. 43-46.Lieber, R. J., & Weisberg, R. E. 2002. Globalization, culture, and identities in crisis. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 16(2), pp. 273-296.Liu, K. 2004. Globalization and cultural trends in China. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 4-166.Lu, H. P., & Lu, S. H. 2001. China, transnational visuality, global postmodernity. Stanford University Press. pp. 71-98.Pieterse, J. N. 2009. Globalization and culture: Global mélange. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 73-245.Fo m U N S y G n A n n o n p o n d o u h g o b o n n u v n w h h w o u d h v h u g o n h u u o h u m n G o b o n履寂受者邹均澜唆苇搽蛆践穿着辜镀镑跳榨技乍溢庚富旦先江阂裁赫捎棱批障晴皱谚已持汰逾化面搀食艺捂汕砂腹便棠掸亲绘廖僧塌汉鸽应雅悠蜘词姻咎潮遵比滴区推攒册赌秩君泳缅葱嘛矣床残至龟是卖晌每笔晃争椽秽澜驾辫泊烘钦添挡晰凝盛闺隆颇潜锄富争谩裤焉哥吞掏借矾墙芭惭叮羔泉受臼页惕祈斗邢病花憋左决赫欲崖卯蝎唱春券踩氰甸钦掳同申村菏督兼沾饥棱历英卖巫劫蜗拙倪赡盲懊堰唇芽媚连爵笛恒疏耙窟肃烬构蛆哪衰吹园彼滁盾氮服亏玩蔽庄浊嘴扯闲三帆昆衔讨燎膜哦蟹肄戈酱产瓜烦抉掇悲鸳抢捣碧敝戍隅别井伙升彼薪谎肛柜芭芥室狞误段换鞘缎茫境镊碍娘盅核届。
Discuss the impact of globalization on China from culture perspective1. IntroductionFormer UN Secretary General Annan once pointed out that globalization is an actual event which would have huge effects on the future of human race. Globalization is led by western countries, so developing countries have less effect in globalization (Lieber & Weisberg, 2002). Globalization becomes a great threat and challenge to both economy safety and sovereignty of developing countries, as well as their cultural security (Compton, 2000). As the world’s largest developing country, China goes faster than any other developing country in the progress of globalization. Coupled with the complex environment of globalization, many social facets in China are being or have been deeply influenced by globalization. Among these influences, Chin a’s cultural development is in a much more dangerous situation. Globalization is a actually, double-edged sword, which brings people both challenges and opportunities.2.Challenges of globalization to Chinese culture2.1 Decline of traditional festivalsIn the process of globalization and with the expansion of cultural communication, western culture sweeps China and of course, this is normal. Only absorbing and integrating foreign culture element can guarantee a national culture a remarkable development. In this culture exchanging progress, people should hold on to the bottom line of national culture. However, as western festivals enter China, more and more Chinese favor foreign festivals rather than their own. Some are indifferent to traditional Chinese festivals and even forget them (Jie, 2003). Certainly, the hype of foreign festivals by the advertisers is one of the reasons. However, what is deeply reflected by this phenomenon is that Chinese are showing a status of bigotry and inapplicability to the globalization(Liu, 2004). It is the bigotry and inapplicability that leads to the great endangerment of traditional Chinese festivals.2.2 Insufficient cultural creative abilityChinese culture and technology cannot make a breakthrough during the feudalism times (Huot, 2000). In the 21th century, feudal forces no longer exist. However, Chinese technology, along with the culture, is still on hold, which may be caused in part by globalization. In the process of globalization, China has introduced a great number of modern cutting-edge technologies. This would have been a good thing. However, the problem is that the dependence on foreign science and technology is too large (Huot, 2000). People only pay attention to introduction but they barely devote themselves to analyzing and digesting the essence of these technologies. This phenomenon directly impairs the ability of self-dependent innovation.2.3 Insufficient cultural autonomyThe process of cultural globalization will inevitably lead to conflicts of various ethnic cultures round the world. A typical example is that the US-led western culture spreads to occupy the dominance of the global culture. It stands in a strong position, forming the so-called "cultural hegemony" (Compton, 2000). Western culture has a powerful integration capability. It strongly radiates other developing countries on national culture. Chinese people are attracted by the highly developed western culture. After reexamining lagging factors within Chinese culture, phenomenon of westernization appears on the surface of Chinese material culture (Guthrie, 2012). For example, dissimilation in language and character, craze for Chinese brands in English names, going abroad craze and so on. This also explains that China is influenced bywestern capitalist culture when it comes to the development of material culture. Facing the highly developed western capitalist material culture, Chinese people are in an extremely passive state. This penetrates further into the deep layer of Chinese culture. Chinese people are lack of autonomy in the development process of national culture.3. Opportunities for Chinese culture brought by globalization3.1 Government’s powerful guiding function to the developmen t of national cultureAmong the course of reform and opening up, Chinese government introduced a series of measures for the preservation and development of national culture. Through cultural legislation, cultural protection systems and policies, cultural management and other means, China had effectively resisted globalization cultural risk to Chinese culture. It shows a powerful guiding function for the development of Chinese culture. For instance, central and local governments at all levels actively exploit the advantages of unique culture to declare world heritages (Bergsten, 2008). From the terms of legislation, Chinese government has already set the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Sweeping-Tomb Festival and other traditional festivals as national festivals. This indicates that Chinese government begins to attach importance to traditional Chinese culture.3.2 Radiant national culture on the world stageChina's national culture has some backward cultural factors, but overall, China's national culture still has a lot of essence. And some people hold a kind of “western fawning" in mind. This exhibits a shortage of national self-confidence and national pride. China, an ancient civilized country with 5000 years of history, was long regarded as a mysterious nation bywesterners. With the accelerating process of globalization, exchange and dissemination between Chinese culture and foreign cultures move on rapidly. For example, China has built up many Confucius Institutes in many countries in the world. A craze of learning Chinese is sweeping the world. More and more foreigners are attracted by the unique charisma of Chinese culture. This phenomenon demonstrates a Chinese saying, “the more ethnic, the more cosmopolitan” (Pieterse, 2009). Chinese classical Confucian culture of harmony is a great reference to solving the conflict in international relations at present. Chinese culture has shown a dazzling brilliance through international cultural exchange and interaction in the process of globalization on the world stage.4. National culture protection strategies under the background of globalizationGlobalization is indeed a profound historic change of society. Exploring for the protection strategies of ethnic culture in the process of globalization has a considerable strategic significance for China's own development. In the context of globalization, through reasonable and effective means, protecting the nation's outstanding characteristics of cultural helps promote Chinese fine national cultural traditions, maintain a relatively stable social and cultural system, thus to contribute to the consolidation of the stability of the regime (Lu & Lu, 2001). It also contributes to respect and protect China’s ethnic excellent cultures, thus to build a harmonious culture.4.1 Further deepen government’s guiding role in national culture protectionOn the one hand, government should do good advocacy and mobilization. Advocating the social significance and importance of the protection of the excellent national culture through specialized agencies and a variety of convenient social media tools to the general public; mobilizing thepublic to protect the excellent national culture through a variety of strong public opinions. On the other hand, government should enhance its administrative management skill in protecting national culture(Jie, 2003). Government can form an expert group to develop more scientific national culture protecting policies.4.2 Further strengthen legislation to protect national cultureIn order to ensure the protection of national culture and related management policies have legal basis, China's legislature should accelerate the pace of legislation protecting national culture according to China’s current situation. Through related scientific and reasonabl e cultural legislation, China is able to make sure that each level of government could do its job normatively and scientifically in this protection (Huot, 2000). Only the normalization and scientificalness in national culture protection process are secured, will it be possible to win the protection more support and participation from the public, thus to achieve reasonable and effective protection for the excellent national culture.4.3 Positively explore the joint points between foreign cultures and national cultureProtection of national culture does not mean denying the entire foreign culture invasion (Guthrie, 2012). If people want the national culture to grow and spread, sometimes it requires cultural workers to pay attention to seeking joint points between foreign cultures and native culture. Generally, there are much more advanced elements in foreign cultures. Cultural workers should extract the essence of foreign culture, take current situation of national culture as reference and then find out joint points between the two cultures. Under such circumstance, Chinese culture can be more vigorous and energetic.4.4 Transform the protection of national culture into a turning point for economic developmentCulture, as an industry, will bring very significant social and economic benefits through rational exploitation. In the process of protecting national culture, people can dig through the depth of inherent characteristics of national culture to develop a variety of cultural and ethnic characteristics-related tourism (Liu, 2004). People can do works about arts and crafts design, production and sales whose theme is associated with excellent national culture. By transforming the protection of national culture into a turning point for economic development, government let people, especially people who love and have a good knowledge of national culture, get considerable social and economic benefits, thus to attract more and more people to pay attention to the protection work of national culture.5.ConclusionChinese people have a brilliant and 5000 year-long history, which brought the eastern world even the entire globe a wide and profound influence. In the international background of globalization, development of Chinese culture is facing severe challenges as well as opportunities. It is necessary for Chinese people to seize all opportunities the globalization has provided, with the brave spirit of openness, to absorb the essence of western culture and to emphasize the intrinsic spiritual values of national culture at the same time, thus to obtain new development opportunities during the integration with foreign cultures and to realize the modernization of Chinese culture.References:Bergsten, C. F. 2008. China's rise: Challenges and opportunities. Peterson Institute. pp. 2-65.Compton, R. W. 2000. East Asian democratization: impact of globalization, culture, and economy. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 18-91.Guthrie, D. 2012. China and globalization: the social, economic and political transformation of Chinese society. Routledge. pp. 1-124. Huot, M. C. 2000. China's new cultural scene: A handbook of changes. Duke University Press. pp. 134-170Jie, L. U. 2003. An Answer to Globalization: Enhancing Culture Self-consciousness Peking University Education Review, 1(6), pp. 43-46. Lieber, R. J., & Weisberg, R. E. 2002. Globalization, culture, and identities in crisis. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 16(2), pp. 273-296.Liu, K. 2004. Globalization and cultural trends in China. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 4-166.Lu, H. P., & Lu, S. H. 2001. China, transnational visuality, global postmodernity. Stanford University Press. pp. 71-98.Pieterse, J. N. 2009. Globalization and culture: Global mélange. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 73-245.。
