Unit 9.6 - Global Culture

"Now I can speak"

Creation Date: Tue Mar 25 2025

Publication Date: Wed Mar 26 2025

Globalized Culture Emergence

So our culture is spearding:

• Movies are going everywhere
• People Knowing about different Cultures

Music

• Local to Global:
  • Jamaica’s reggae went worldwide
    • Thank Bob Marley
  • K-pop, yeah my sister listens to this
    • Heimler likes K-pop
  • Social media spreading like wild fire

Global Entertainment

• Hollywood:
  • American movies everywhere
  • Western ideas spreading
  • Local stories getting pushed aside
• Bollywood
  • Movies from India
  • Large amounts of them
  • Saul like RRR (Bollywood Movie)
• Struggles:
  • Some complaining its imperialism
  • Local Cultures Struggling
  • Some say it’s just sharing

Rise of Global Sports

• Olympics
• World Cup - FUTBOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
• Effects:
  • Both global sports
  • shows national pride
  • Is fun

Consumer Culture Development

• After World War II:

  • US started making lots of stuff due to heavy industry form WW2
  • Created global brands
  • Changed how people buy things

• The famous ones:

• McDonald’s

  • Coca-Cola
  • Known everywhere

Impact of Online Retail

• The platforms:

  • Alibaba
  • eBay
  • Amazon
  • Walmart
  • Temu - Hell no
  • Shein - Never

• What changed:

  • Buy stuff from anywhere
  • No more borders for shopping
  • Everything delivered to your door