In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, he begins his chapter on globalization with the statement “people who complain about the homogeneity produced by globalization often fail to notice that globalization is, equally, a threat to homogeneity” (101). Here, Appiah explains that globalization, which is the expansion of cultures around the world, does not result in a world where all is the same. Globalization is thought to make society homogeneous, but globalization is the reason society is not homogeneous. Appiah supports his argument by referring to Kumasi, Ghana. In Kumasi, globalization has prevailed. In the streets of the city, a multitude of languages can be heard and it is open to the global
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While the novel is fictional, it realistically portrays the colonization of Africa as well as portraying the results of globalization when a society is unwilling to change. In the novel, white Christian Europeans go to Africa in an attempt to colonize the African landscape and spread their culture to the native peoples. This novel pays particular attention to the effects of globalization brought upon the white man within the Ibo tribes of Niger. When the white man in the novel came down to the Ibo tribe, he brought with him many rewarding mechanisms of globalization. Examples include medicine that seemed to have worked better than the Ibo’s own and schools in which converts to the Christian faith could learn to read and write. These traits in some ways did help in creating a stronger Ibo society, bringing about a better life for some, such as outcasts and women, who were undermined by the Ibo culture. But the rewards of globalization the Ghanaian went under cannot be said the same for the …show more content…
They no longer received as much money through indulgence and was going bankrupt, their following count diminished, and many questioned whether the Catholic Church was founded on religion or greed. The Catholic Church had crumbled. Unlike the Ibo tribe in Things Fall Apart, however, the Catholic Church realized they had no choice but to accept the Lutheran cultural identity and embrace globalization. When this was done, the Catholic Church recovered and is seen in a more positive light. Today, the Roman Catholicism is the largest worshiped denomination of Christianity. By ultimately accepting the change globalization brought about, with different a different cultural identity, the Catholic Church saved itself from collapsing and becoming an example of what happens when a cultural identity isn’t accepting of others. Since the Catholic Church did accept globalization, strong homogeneous cultural identities can be seen between the Lutheran and Catholic Churches, such as their impersonation of God’s justice. While still not complete replicas, their views on God (more so the Catholic Church) has changed positively and God is seen as someone to be loved rather than
While the novel is fictional, it realistically portrays the colonization of Africa as well as portraying the results of globalization when a society is unwilling to change. In the novel, white Christian Europeans go to Africa in an attempt to colonize the African landscape and spread their culture to the native peoples. This novel pays particular attention to the effects of globalization brought upon the white man within the Ibo tribes of Niger. When the white man in the novel came down to the Ibo tribe, he brought with him many rewarding mechanisms of globalization. Examples include medicine that seemed to have worked better than the Ibo’s own and schools in which converts to the Christian faith could learn to read and write. These traits in some ways did help in creating a stronger Ibo society, bringing about a better life for some, such as outcasts and women, who were undermined by the Ibo culture. But the rewards of globalization the Ghanaian went under cannot be said the same for the …show more content…
They no longer received as much money through indulgence and was going bankrupt, their following count diminished, and many questioned whether the Catholic Church was founded on religion or greed. The Catholic Church had crumbled. Unlike the Ibo tribe in Things Fall Apart, however, the Catholic Church realized they had no choice but to accept the Lutheran cultural identity and embrace globalization. When this was done, the Catholic Church recovered and is seen in a more positive light. Today, the Roman Catholicism is the largest worshiped denomination of Christianity. By ultimately accepting the change globalization brought about, with different a different cultural identity, the Catholic Church saved itself from collapsing and becoming an example of what happens when a cultural identity isn’t accepting of others. Since the Catholic Church did accept globalization, strong homogeneous cultural identities can be seen between the Lutheran and Catholic Churches, such as their impersonation of God’s justice. While still not complete replicas, their views on God (more so the Catholic Church) has changed positively and God is seen as someone to be loved rather than