Cultural convergence project
By Bernardo Rodriguez
Cultural divergence
North Korea and South Korea is an example of cultural divergence because each country have different ideas about how the political government should be. They had many wars and conflicts leading Korea to separate in two countries that have a different type of government. North Korea with a dictator and South Korea with president.
Picture link: http://www.fairobserver.com/360theme/korean-peninsula-conflict-horizon
Cultural convergence, globalization of democracy.
The fight of countries of trying to influence another country to have a democratic government, countries are influencing another countries to have democratic government because democratize systems safeguard human rights, having freedom and the right to vote for their president. The good development of a country would be a result of this.
http://worldsavvy.org/monitor/index.php?option=com_content&id=178&Itemid=367
Pic link: http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2008/12/08/do-indian-voters-really-choose/
Cultural convergence, globalization of English.
English is spoken in the entire world, this language dominates the world as no language ever has. In all the world they teach English because is the language that most of the jobs use, it's is involved with the global economy, it's is the common language used between companies of all the world, making it easier to communicate and make businesses. Kids learn English to have preparation for having a job. US economy and culture are spreading to other parts of the world like India, now I dial people know and learn how to talk English in other to have a job with an American company.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/world/asia/09iht-englede.1.5198685.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Pic link: http://blogalize.typepad.com/micro/2009/12/english-the-cosmopolitan-tongue.html
Cultural convergence, globalization of technology.
Apple products because these Apple products are sold in all the world and in each country you go, apple products are recognized, there are many apple fabrics in many countries.
http://chrisglobalisation.weebly.com/case-study.html
Pic link: http://www.cnmeonline.com/news/china-issues-4g-td-lte-licenses-paving-the-way-for-apple-expansion/
Cultural convergence, globalization of sports.
The FIFA World Cup, this is a world tournament in which countries all over the world participate, it's every 4 years and each World Cup is in a different country so the participant countries go to the same country to participate, the winner of the cup is the world champion.