The globalization is defined as “the process by which social institutions become adopted on a global scale” in the dictionaries. From this definition it may seem as a good thing but the reality is not like that, unfortunately. The globalization is the process having high standards in the economy. On the other hand, it is the process of having lower standards in the economy. It may seem a dilemma but the reason of this is how you put it into practice. If you adopt the golden rules of globalization and if you make these rules work rapidly, your economy increases. But if you do not obey the golden rules of globalization and can not function it, your economy will sink. From others point of view, they see globalization as loosing their own identity and culture.

In his articles “Globalization: ‘The Golden Straitjacket’”

There is another new power source that works parallel with Golden Straitjacket which is called Electronic Herd. This system is made up of some faceless investors that sit behind the computer screens and move their money around the world from mutual funds to pension funds. This system includes big multinational corporations who invest around the world by Electronic Herd, says Friedman. As a result of this, they became low-cost producers. Because, they do not pay any money for making these investments. When countries wear Golden Straitjacket, they are rewarded by the Herd and when they do not wear Golden Straitjacket, they are punished by the Herd who withdraw their money from that country.

We can also think of music and effects of globalization on that, too. For instance, in 1960s the most popular kinds of music in Turkey were Turkish Folk Music and Turkish Art Music. The majority of the society listened to these. My father and my mother grew up with these songs. With the bad effects of globalization, new music styles like pop, rock, and metal came to Turkey and now most of the young people listen to these. We already forgot our own music. It is also the same in cinema. Before, we were watching Turkish films and it was reflecting our life style, our beliefs, our traditions and we were seeing some parts of our lives in the movies. But ‘Americanization’ affected Turkish cinema very badly and now we are all watching the Hollywood Fantasies. Also we had Karagöz and Hacivat, orta oyunu, etc. These were also reflecting our people in daily life and their speeches. But no one remembers those shows. We now watch stand-ups and sit-coms and laugh at them. They are totally members of American made globalization.

From my point of view, Turkey should be eager to put on the Golden Straitjacket, on the other hand it shouldn’t. I mean Turkey must wear it and fasten it very tightly for the economic purposes and its benefits. On the contrary, because of cultural impact of globalization, I do not want my country to put it on.

On the other hand, there is a cultural impact of globalization and there will be more impacts of globalization than we have today. I know that culture is a program of shared rules, set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of a community. By globalization the values, the rules and the beliefs of other cultures come to Turkey and sometimes are in front of our culture. For example, we know that food is a reflective element of a culture as Friedman also stated in his article. We have a lot of sort of meals that are delicious and healthy. But, by globalization the American style, fast-food, invaded our meals and the majority of the society began to eat that unhealthy stuff. For example, majority of the boys and girls do not know much about our own meals, but they know a lot about McDonald’s meals. I think they eat it not only because of its taste, but also being a part of America.

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