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When anti-globalization protesters took to the streets of Washington last weekend, they blamed globalization for everything from
When anti-globalization protesters took to the streets of Washington last weekend, they blamed globalization for everything from
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2012-10-30
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问题
When anti-globalization protesters took to the streets of Washington last weekend, they blamed globalization for everything from hunger to the destruction of home-grown cultures. And globalization meant the United States. The critics call it Coca- Colonization, and French sheep farmer Jose Bove has become a cult (狂热分子) figure since destroying a McDonald’s restaurant in 1999. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, globalization is neither homogenizing (使同化) nor Americanizing the cultures of the world. To understand why not, we have to step back and put the current period in a larger historical perspective. Although they are related, the long-term historical trends of globalization and modernization are not the same. While modernization has produced some common traits, such as large cities, factories and mass communications, local cultures have by no means been erased. The appearance of similar institutions in response to similar problems is not surprising, but it does not lead to homogeneity. In the first half of the 20th century, for example, there were some similarities among the industrial societies of Britain, Germany, America and Japan, but there were even more important differences. When China, India and Brazil complete their current processes of industrialization and modernization, we should not expect them to be exact copies of Japan, Germany or the United States.
Take the current information revolution. The United States is at the forefront of this great movement of change, so the uniform social and cultural habits produced by television viewing or Internet use, for instance, are often attributed to Americanization. But correlation is not cause. Since the United States does exist and is at the leading edge of the information revolution, there is a degree of Americanization at present, but it’s likely to decrease over the course of the 21st century as technology spreads and local cultures modernize in their own ways.
Historical proof that globalization does not necessarily mean homogenization can be seen in the case of Japan. In the mid-19th century, it became the first Asian country to embrace globalization and to borrow successfully from the world without losing its uniqueness. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan searched broadly for tools and innovations that would allow it to become a major power rather than a victim of Western imperialism. The lesson that Japan has to teach the rest of the world is that even a century and a half of openness to global trends does not necessarily assure destruction of a country’s cultural identity.
From the passage we can conclude that the author is strongly in defense of ______.
选项
A、modernization
B、Americanization
C、information revolution
D、globalization
答案
D
解析
推理题。本题问作者在为什么辩护。通读全文,第一段作者提出全球化既不能同化世界文化,也不能使世界文化美国化。第二段指出全球化和现代化的历史趋势是不同的。现代化不能消除当地文化。表面的相似不能导致同一性。第三段以美国为例,由于美国走在这种变革的前沿,所以由电视和因特网所带来的同一社会和文化习惯是美国化的原因,但是随着科技的传播和当地文化以自己的方式现代化,美国的影响会减少。第四段以日本为例,说明全球化的趋势不需要破坏一个国家独立的文化个性。综上所述,全文都是在说全球化.因此应该选D。由第二段可知道作者是想通过与现代化进行对比从而说明一个国家文化被同化不是全球化的结果,所以A不对。由第三段可知.美国化是全球化的一个例子,所以其他两项不对。
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