学术英语社科Unit9五单元原文及翻译.pdfVIP

Unit 9 Cultural globalization 1. Much of the early development of different languages, customs, and other diverse aspects of world cultures resulted from the isolation of groups of people from one another. It is not surprising ,then ,that a degree of cultural amalgamation has occurred as improved transportation and communication have brought people of various societies into ever-frequent contact . Analyzing the blurring of culture differences inevitably includes a great deal about fast food, basketball , rock music, and other such aspects of pop culture , but such analysis dose not trivialize the subject.Insteada long-standing bottom-up line of political theory arguesthat the world s people can build on commonplace interactions and increasing cultural commonalities that engender familiarity with and confidence in one another to create a global civil society that might evolve into a global nation. By the same process, if transnational civil societies develop, then regional and even global schemes of governance could conceivably form and supplement or supplant the territorial state. Scholars who examine the bottom-up progress of transnational integration look for evidence in such factors as the flow of communications and commerce between countries and the spread across borders of what people wear, eat, and do for recreation. 2. While it is premature to talk of a world culture and indeed that may never come there is significant evidence of cultural amalgamation in the world The leaders of China once wore Chinese tunic suits now they wear Western-style business suits When dressing informally people in shanghai Lagos and Mexico City are more apt to wear jeans T-shirts and sneakers than their countrys traditional dress.Young people everywhere listen to the same music,with,for example Disturbia by Rihanna on the Top-10 charts in many countries in additional t