Issac+Han,+Lauren+Lee,+Jay+Kim

**Lauren Lee and Jay Kim's argument : )**

Be it resolved that globalization is detrimental to cultures around the world. Hello Ladies and Gentleman. We oppose the resolution that globalization is detrimental to cultures around the world. Globalization is NOT detrimental to cultures around the world. Let’s define some key terms before we go ahead and point out our arguments. Globalization is the changing nature of the world around us as we move further into the 21st century. However, we want to point out that globalization is not new, but the present era has more distinctive features than the past. We would like to define detrimental, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, as damaging and severely harmful. Globalization does not damage cultures around the world nor is it severely harmful to the cultures around the world but actually beneficial to cultures around the world. Culture is defined as the customs, arts, language, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or a social group. Critics of globalization frequently charge that globalization results in an “ Americanization of culture ” and  concomitant loss of identity and local cultural values. I would propose a more optimistic view, and that is that globalization leads to never-ending exchange of ideas, especially through popular culture, since it affects the greatest number of people. On a global scale, this variety is almost infinite.  I.  Globalization is not detrimental because it **allows cultures to equally compete with each other.** - There are international rules of globalization that get kept in order to prevent harms to cultures around the world.. ** Cultures, regardless of land mass or population, were given a chance through globalization to spread their wings and spread across the world ** EX: - A Nation’s movie industry can set required amount of days to screen their local made movies to equally compete with American blockbusters.   -  According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they have estimated that for music, printed matter, visual arts, photography, radio, television, and other medias of just the developing countries such as in Africa, has increased from 12 to 30 percent.    -   Ex: India is known to people as a poor country with Hinduism as its center. However, through globalization, Bollywood (India’s movie industry) has spread across the world and notified people of the huge size of its movie industry.  Ex: South Korea has also discovered through globalization that its local films, if well made, can compete with American blockbusters. Swiri, the monster, Shake the Korean flag, Kind Ms. Kumja, and other Korean movies had been recognized in international movie award ceremonies such as the Cahn. Korean actor Jun Do yeon was nominated as the best female actor last year above all the well known European and American actors. If it wasn’t for globalization how could’ve that be done?  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">II <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">. Globalization is not detrimental because it is quite the illusion to think you can lose your identity. **People don’t LOSE their identities.** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">- Cultures don’t disappear into thin air just because globalization introduced a new culture. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">- Just because you eat McDonalds, wear Abercrombie, and sing Beyonce songs don’t make you an American. You would still have Korean culture around you such as speaking Korean, respecting the elders, and so forth. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">- Ex: The Canadians absorb a bit of the American culture, a bit of the French, a bit of other European societies. Perhaps they have become a different sort of Canadians, but they remain Canadian nonetheless. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">- Globalization also BLENDS in into the indigenous cultures. For example, in France, there are baguette mcdonald hamburgers and in Korea, there are bulgogi burgers. Even though McDonald is a globalization product, it is not destroying its native culture. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> -  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">And it goes both ways. When you look at the success of cultural exports out of Korea — <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">this so-called han-ryu through music, television, movies, and art — <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">Korea <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> becomes part of the identity of other people such as the Chinese, Philliphinos, Thai people, Japanese, and even up till Europe <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">III <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">. Furthermore, Globalization allows people to keep their identity and even more **add new identities**. **Globalization allows us to ADD and DEVELOP out cultures. Not harm or damage the original.** Through globalization, cultures around the world are benefited by adapting partial selections of other newly introduced cultures. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"> n  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">Ex: Korea did not have hot chili pepper powders until the influence of the Columbian Exchange, which is the form of Globalization in early ages. But in current Korea, we can not imagine Korea food without hot chili pepper powders. An foreign influence has become a major factor of a nation’s culture. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"> n  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">English, a language spread through globalization allowed lots of individuals to become bilingual or trilingual, which is a great gift. Not a harmful effect. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #231f20; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLTStd-Roman">CONCLUSION: The world is a world of multi-identity, and that Globalization promotes progress, not loss in cultures. Globalization is definitely NOT DETRIMENTAL TO CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD. Because not identity is lost, cultures are furthermore developed than damaged, and