Culture Convergence and Divergence
Ruhi Deshmukh and Emily Shrimpton
Cultural Convergence: Globalization of Technology
Twitter is an example of cultural convergence. People from all over the world join twitter to interact with their friends virtually and meet new people. It gives people a chance to say something funny, tweet out their thoughts, talk about something going on in the world, different holidays, tweet a picture and give birthday wishes. You even have a chance to DM (direct message) anyone as long as they also have a twitter. This allows different people to connect even if they don't have each other's phone numbers.
Cultural Convergence: Globalization of English
The Columbian Exchange brought new ideas, customs, and traditions to the Native Americans. With these new ideas came religion, language, and government (civilization). The Columbian Exchange is an example of cultural convergence of English because of the new language that the had brought and diffused.
Cultural Convergence: Globalization of Sports
The Olympics brings people from around the together and promotes peace and resolution of conflicts. It is a way for countries around the world to put their differences aside and come together in a common interest, that interest being sports.
Cultural Convergence: Globalization of Democracy
The Globalization of democracy is becoming more apparent in our world. It started off in Athens then moved on to several other countries and by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries America was developing into a democracy as well. The news of this newer government spread and more and more countries started to become democracies.
Divergence
The McDonalds fast food chain is spreading throughout the world. There are now franchises open in China, India, Singapore, Buenos Aires, and so many more places. This is cultural divergence because McDonalds is originally an American company and some people from other countries don't like how the American culture is slowly taking over their culture.
Works Cited
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/07/27/london-2012-summer-olympics-opening-ceremony/#/1
http://apworldhistory2012-2013.weebly.com/414-the-colossal-impact-of-the-colombian-exchange.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's
http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/07/06/chinese-ronald-mcdonald-really-does/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suffrage_universel_1848.jpg