The Western Cultural Escalation
Life articulates with culture. Culture is the result of an influx of ideas which creates norms and ideologies of certain regions. Modern day culture, tends to be a hybrid of a myriad of aspects of many cultures around the world. An alpha of all of the included cultures tend to be “western culture.” Although Western culture, with its rigid bond with modernization, plays a dominant role in shaping world culture, such as creating necessity for freedom, nationalism, fashion styles, entertainment ie. music/movies/television, interconnections and individualism throughout the globe, is only possible due to technological advancements which allows for such supremacy. Western culture receives its popularity and is able …show more content…
Through the entertainment industry along with our media, and the internet with it’s large database of knowledge; by understanding the reasoning behind the popularity of Western culture can we understand the …show more content…
The entertainment industry and our media alongside the internet share information about their culture to the rest of the world; due to the period of the last decade, the world had idealized the West’s advanced way of storytelling, they engrossed in the information which influxed and saw the information as commonplace. Movies and cinemas which pertain to the ideologies and norms of the western way of life, share those ideas to all who watch. Thus, sharing this ideology, which in turn creates seeds of cultural change in their own lands and couldn’t be done without films. In addition, the rest of the world does actually demand Western entertainment. In the media and advertising section of the New York Times, the article, “World Falls for American Media, Even as It Sours on America”, written by Tim Arango states, “Hollywood movies routinely sell far more tickets overseas than at home” (1). He continues to mention, “For Hollywood, a much more important development was happening globally, as rising standards of living around the world resulted in more money spent on entertainment. Big, comfortable multiplexes being erected in countries like Russia and Mexico were helping draw moviegoers. In 2003, the domestic box office brought in $9.2 billion for American studios, and foreign countries generated $10.9 billion, according
Life articulates with culture. Culture is the result of an influx of ideas which creates norms and ideologies of certain regions. Modern day culture, tends to be a hybrid of a myriad of aspects of many cultures around the world. An alpha of all of the included cultures tend to be “western culture.” Although Western culture, with its rigid bond with modernization, plays a dominant role in shaping world culture, such as creating necessity for freedom, nationalism, fashion styles, entertainment ie. music/movies/television, interconnections and individualism throughout the globe, is only possible due to technological advancements which allows for such supremacy. Western culture receives its popularity and is able …show more content…
Through the entertainment industry along with our media, and the internet with it’s large database of knowledge; by understanding the reasoning behind the popularity of Western culture can we understand the …show more content…
The entertainment industry and our media alongside the internet share information about their culture to the rest of the world; due to the period of the last decade, the world had idealized the West’s advanced way of storytelling, they engrossed in the information which influxed and saw the information as commonplace. Movies and cinemas which pertain to the ideologies and norms of the western way of life, share those ideas to all who watch. Thus, sharing this ideology, which in turn creates seeds of cultural change in their own lands and couldn’t be done without films. In addition, the rest of the world does actually demand Western entertainment. In the media and advertising section of the New York Times, the article, “World Falls for American Media, Even as It Sours on America”, written by Tim Arango states, “Hollywood movies routinely sell far more tickets overseas than at home” (1). He continues to mention, “For Hollywood, a much more important development was happening globally, as rising standards of living around the world resulted in more money spent on entertainment. Big, comfortable multiplexes being erected in countries like Russia and Mexico were helping draw moviegoers. In 2003, the domestic box office brought in $9.2 billion for American studios, and foreign countries generated $10.9 billion, according