Culture is turning similar around the world

2019-09-07: Task 2 Culture is turning similar around the world. What are the reasons? Is it a positive trend or a negative trend? In reality culture from developed countries is continuously distributed around the world. This phenomena is tied to globalization, where culture from a country is intentionally spread to other countries to sell products. Let me give an example. Japanese culture is very rich but the accessibility of the information in Japan is restricted. Their products are mostly created for local consumption. They really did not advertise much outside their country. But in South Korea, k-pop instantly became a hit specially in southeast asian countries because South Korea deliberately extended the targeted consumers outside the country. They made access of Korean TV series, movies, fashion, and products very easy, particularly online. They examine cultures of other countries, and studied what products will get accepted by a certain market. And starting with the advent of the internet, information goes out so fast. In the internet people around the world can easily see what other countries are doing, what is popular to them, what is not popular for them, what are the cultural similarity and differences, and so on. Generally I can say that it is a positive trend, but excess of anything is bad. It is good because integration of other culture means broader sense of how you see the world. But a culture crash, or culture that is slowly forgotten due to popular culture influenced by other countries, is unacceptable. You can gladly accept a culture, but make sure that you are still going to enrich and take care of your own.