Made in Taiwan. Made in Brazil. Made in EU. Made in China.
Every day we see lot products from different countries. Why does this happen?
Well, it is certainly related to our blog theme: globalization. You probably already heard this world. Actually, nowadays, expressions, such as globalized communications, globalized economics and globalized world, are very common.
But what’s globalization?
Many sociologists and economists tried to find a meaning. The truth is that there is not a clear definition of globalization. However, we can say that it’s a global process evolving international economic, political and socio-cultural relations, motivated by the communications’ development which provides a global compression of space and time.
The disagreement comes when we talk about globalization effects. Some people believe that globalization makes us more alike because a culture is followed by people who don’t belong to it (homogenization); on the other hand, globalized communications might make us aware of the diversity of cultures (heterogenization); there is also a process which involves mixture of cultures (hybridization).
Which one of these processes is the most important consequence of globalization? Are these phenomenons positive or negative to our globalized world? These are some questions we may try to answer further on this blog.
Hence, our purpose is to make you aware of the relationships among cultures “made in” different backgrounds in this globalized world.
We hope you enjoy our blog and find it useful.
Welcome to “Made in”!
