1. society

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Communications tom cruise and Nicole kidman
o Big money makers
In sports, you have fabulously wealthy elite
Soccer players, Messi – Barcelona
Ronaldo Portugal
David Beckham  England
Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, yow ming (retired)
Hockey players  Crosby, malkon, clitcho brothers in boxing
International elites of three fabulously wealthy people have been formed
I don’t know much about the financial side of cricket
Cricket next to soccer is the most globalized sport, baseball comes behind cricket
Political institutions and United Nations
They tend to ignore global political organizations undermines national sovereignty and so have
organizations like the EU (European Union)
United Nations
Growth of political institutions
History of how the UN was formed
All you have to know is that if he mentioned UNICEF is the United Nation’s Children’s Fund
When you are giving to charity  ask what proportion of every dollar goes to the people that actually
need it
UNICEF has one of the worst records of all charitable organizaitons when it comes to that
The CEO of UNICEF receives 1.2 million a year which is 100 000 dollars a month plus all expenses
plus a rolls Royce
If you want to give to charity
For the oakridge community centre who have breakfast for needy children
Before they go to school go to oakridge and get breakfast
Children who go to school with an empty stomach don’t learn very well
One of the best organization
100% in oakridge goes to it because people administering it are volunteers
one of the best charitable organizations is Salvation Army  90% goes to charitable
United Way is not as good
Countries that are members of the EU are subject to Parliament and subject to European courts
Neither is the high court in EU same thing applies
Merits and demerits in globalization are not raised
There was a case in Canada in which a war criminal for another countries made that supreme court
of Canada made a decision should be deported , and they were going to deported and UN said no you
can’t deport  the branch for UN Committee against torture setting  many countries in that
committee practice torture
We have UN deport individual, you cant send back, he might torture
UN is not elected
We have electorial control over our courts
We elect the prime minister so we have democratic control
When it comes to UN we have no control over it
A global culture  two theses here
o Single symbolic global culture (global consciousness)
o (global culture)
o is globalization producing a single symbolic global culture
o if you can analyze globally
o many people think globally today
o many people say it began in 1969
o Neil Armstrong, took picture of the earth
o Walking on the moon
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High-definition picture very sharp and presents the earth as a whole and totality against the
blackness of space
People after 1969 used to call earth spaceship
How did our consciousness, how has it evolved over time
Our consciousness used to be rooted in our households
Immediate relatives and extended relativeness
Our consciousness was located in the kinship group and then it moved to band, to clan, to
tribe and then finally under feudalism moved to feudal village and a feudal Campton and
then to nation state  main political unit that we find in the world today
Nation state has its own defined economy because nation state has borders and they are
protected and watched to some degree and nation state has its own money
So legal system has its own weights and measures
We used to use the old imperial system in Canada
We have a hybrid between Metrics and old Imperial system
Best example of globalization is the environmental movement particularly global warming
The UN takes a leading role here, the IPCC (International Panel of Climate Change) UN global
rule
Global culture  two Theses
We have hybridization thesis and the homogenization thesis
A hybrid is a mixture of different elements homogenization means all the same
So is global culture is hybrid or homogenous
Probably a bit of both
McDonaldization representation of homogenization and formation of a single global culture
Fastfood industry and MCDs operates the same everywhere
Mcdonalds come to go with the spread of value
When people talk about homogeonization
United states has most powerful military
No other countries have one to speak of
When people talk of homogenoization they have mcds model in mind
Homogenization pushed by US  largest economy, largest cultural, music, movies influence
(soft power) military (Hard power
Coca Colonizaiton has spread American culture throughout the world
Global culture is becoming homogenized
What does evidence say?
Ideas of democracy represent there are lots of differences around the world
Mentions coca cola MTV, CNN American icons, Disney, Basketball, and Baseball etc.
Basketball is behind cricket which is behind soccer which is behind baseball
Critics say homogenization exaggerates influence
America can be held with suspicion and fear and outright hostility on some occaisons
Perhaps homogenization overstates the influences
What we see happening globally is a return of ethnic separatism
Globalization is supposed to mean the disappearance of ethnic identiy
For a single global symbolic culture
When we see the world today we see a return to ethnic identity
When old soviet union collapsed 1988 1990 we saw country break up along ethnic lines
Yugoslavia collapsed, broke up, into warring ethnic groups  were in war kind of before