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Global culture refers to what?

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural:
1. Products
2. Activities
becoming ‘universal’

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where what?

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where:
1. Brands
2. Food
3. Films
4. Other cultural products
are identical across many different countries

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures do what?

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where:

  1. Brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries
  2. National cultures lose their distinctiveness
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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of what?

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This is linked to the trend of globalisation

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
Globalisation is what?

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Globalisation is the process by which:

  1. The world becomes more interconnected
  2. Activities in different countries influence each other
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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
What are all examples of global brands?

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  1. McDonald’s
  2. Microsoft
  3. Nike
  4. Coca-Cola
    are all examples of global brands
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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly what?

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  1. McDonald’s
  2. Microsoft
  3. Nike
  4. Coca-Cola
    are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world
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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a what?

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  1. McDonald’s
  2. Microsoft
  3. Nike
  4. Coca-Cola
    are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture
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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
Who argued even in the 1960s that what?

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McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place.
We now live in a what?

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We now live in a ‘global village’

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Global culture refers to the growing trend of cultural products and activities becoming ‘universal,’ where brands, food, films and other cultural products are identical across many different countries and national cultures lose their distinctiveness.
This is linked to the trend of globalisation.
McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola are all examples of global brands, instantly recognisable around the world, and therefore part of a global culture.
McLuhan (1964) argued even in the 1960s that the world had become a smaller place.
We now live in a ‘global village.’
This has been driven by what?

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This has been driven by:

  1. Industry (multinational companies)
  2. Travel
  3. A globally accessible media
  4. The internet in particular
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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural)

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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are:

  1. Technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones
  2. Social media
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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all what?

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Social media means that we are all interconnected

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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
Example

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For example, we can:

  1. FaceTime someone across the world
  2. Send money across the world to people in need
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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include what?

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The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries

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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries, such as what?

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The positive effects on individual cultures of such developments include that it helps with the development of third-world countries, such as Libya

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Examples of globalisation in action (things that have become cross-cultural) are technological developments like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and smartphones and social media.
Social media means that we are all interconnected.
For example, we can FaceTime someone across the world and send money across the world to people in need.
The negative effects on individual cultures of such developments include what?

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The negative effects on individual cultures of such developments include that:

  1. Cultures are losing their distinctiveness
  2. A lot of cultures are becoming westernised