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What is the impact of the Internet on Global Cultural Forms?

The word globalization is deeply introduced in our daily life. We are so used to hear it that we don’t even realize that in the most of the dictionaries or encyclopaedias, the word “globalization” is absent, even in those dictionaries in which new expressions such as “hardware” or “software” have been added. This happens because the use of this word is more recent that the other cases, it became popular in the ‘90s, but not even at the beginning of that decade, but when it was more advanced.

However, few people realize it. Everybody knows what globalization means and that is enough. It is not important that we do not know the specific and rigorous definition of the word because all of us understand its meaning, which is easily deductible.

Certainly, globalization and its derivations (globalize, globalizing, globalized) come from “global”, a word that does figures in the dictionary and whose meaning is “taken as a group”. Global, is derived from “globe”, referring to the Earth, in the sense that covers it all.

Therefore, globalization is a generalization, an intent to make a world that is not fractioned, but generalized, in which the majority of the things are equal or signify the same thing, in Brazil as in China, in the Arabian Emirates like in Japan, in the United States as in Burkina Faso, in Botswana as in Australia, in Germany as in Vietnam, etc. A world, definitely, without socio-cultural, economic and political borders.

Since those are the three most important aspects of globalization, it is a lot more than a simple generalization, or what the majority of people believe that it is. Globalization is something a lot more complex that it seems at first.

So, we can say that globalization has economical and political objectives and origins, it is nourished by the Mass Media, and its influence is on the...