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Texts providing theories of globalization include Peter L. Berger, “Four Faces of Global Culture,” The National Interest, no. 49, pp. 23–29 (Fall 1997); Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996); Ulf Hannerz, “Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture,” in Mike Featherstone (ed.), Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity (1990), pp. 237–251; John Tomlinson, Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction (1991); and Malcolm Waters, Globalization, 2nd ed. (2001). Discussions of food and global dietary trends are found in James L. Watson (ed.), Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia (1997); Susan Tax Freeman, “The Capsicums in Old World Culinary Structures,” in Leonard Plotnicov and Richard Scaglion (eds.), Consequences of Cultivar Diffusion (1999), pp. 75–83; and Sucheta Mazumdar, “The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, 1600–1900,” chapter 3 in Raymond Grew (ed.), Food in Global History (1999), pp. 58–78. Studies of television are discussed in Robert C. Allen (ed.), To Be Continued—Soap Operas Around the World (1995); and Daniel Miller, “The Young and the Restless in Trinidad: A Case of the Local and the Global in Mass Consumption,” chapter 10 in Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch (eds.), Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, updated ed. (1994), pp. 163–182. Broader issues of popular culture are treated in Walter Lafeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (1999); Timothy D. Taylor, Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (1997); and Ian Condry, “The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music,” chapter 8 in Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger (eds.), Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000), pp. 166–186. Debates about age demographics can be found in Peter G. Peterson, Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America—and the World (1999); and Theodore Roszak, The Longevity Revolution, new ed. (2001; previous edition published as America the Wise, 1998).
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Globalizing culture in transboundary space. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Cultural Globalization in the Context of International Business (PDF). | Feb 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Big Ideas - Globalisation and cultural identity. | Dec 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Psychology - Culture and self-construal in the age of globalization: an empirical inquiry based on multiple approaches. | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Journal of English Language and Literature - Cultural Globalization in the 21st Century (PDF). | Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - ScholarlyCommons - Globalization of culture through the Media (PDF). | Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Army University Press - Impact of Cultural Globalization on Soldiering. | Oct 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Colorado Community College System�s Open Textbook - PPSC HIS 1120: The World: 1500-Present - Globalization. | Aug 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - ScholarlyCommons - Hybridity in Cultural Globalization. | Jun 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Seoul National University - S-Space - Cultural Globalization: Challenges and Responses. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Future - Does globalization mean we will become one culture? | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Oct 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Cultural syndromes in the era of globalization. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Cultural Globalization. | Sep 05, 2022 | ||
| Media revised. | Nov 04, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 17, 2017 | ||
| Added video. | Jan 08, 2016 | ||
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| Add new Web site: World Health Organisation - Cultural Dimension of Globalization. | Aug 01, 2011 | ||
| Added image of an Indian businessman talking on a cellular phone. | Jul 23, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 28, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 24, 2007 | ||
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