World music and globalization of world music is becoming one of the most controversial topics in today's world. ... In my opinion, I see the positive aspects of world music allowing for the development of social and cultural interconnections between people and the music of the world. ... Due to the overwhelming evidence presented regarding the positive aspects of globalization through world music, it is difficult to grasp that the creation of world music started off as a marketing strategy. ... It is evident that the global music industry has flourished due to the introduction and coopera...

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Subcultures are formed when a person's values and beliefs are shaped around particular styles of fashion, music, language and other individuals with the same or similar interests. ... However, young people can also be viewed in a positive way as there are many choices for them to take on such as employment, education, technology, socialisation and support. It is unfortunate that young people in Australian society are most often under scrutiny for violence, crimes, and drugs rather than for their positive contributions to society. Subcultures are formed when an individual's atti...

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An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however this is not recognized, hence the pupil is doomed to fail as they may not know or understand the ˜basic' English/British cultu...

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In this paper, we are going to analyze both the positive and negative effects of globalization from a variety of different angles, specifically: cultural diversity, employment, human rights, poverty, and national sovereignty. ... Take the United States, which exerts enormous amounts of hegemonic influence, in promoting its values, habits, and beliefs through popular culture and the news media. The U.S exerts so much influence in fact, that America actually begins to get accused of trying to "Americanize" the rest of the world. Thrusting their ideas of what to eat, what music to listen to, and...

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Furthermore, while communicating in foreign language, students are easily influenced by their mother tongue, which is deeply rooted and works subconsciously even when they have learned some history, geography and literature of English- speaking countries. ... Firstly, in the aesthetic sense, culture involves literature, music, films and the fine arts. ... Svanes (1988) and Prodromou (1992) were cited as claiming that successful language learner is the one who has a positive attitude towards the target culture. ...

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