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  2. Globalization - Wikipedia

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    Globalization is a diverse phenomenon that relates to a multilateral political world and to the increase of cultural objects and markets between countries. The Indian experience particularly reveals the plurality of the impact of cultural globalization. [105] Transculturalism is defined as "seeing oneself in the other". [106]

  3. World Values Survey - Wikipedia

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    The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research project that explores people's values and beliefs, how they change over time, and what social and political impact they have. Since 1981 a worldwide network of social scientists have conducted representative national surveys as part of WVS in almost 100 countries.

  4. Cultural globalization - Wikipedia

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    Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. [1] This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet , popular culture media, and international travel .

  5. Role of Christianity in civilization - Wikipedia

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    A Pew Center study about Religion and Living arrangements around the world in 2019, found that Christians around the world live in somewhat smaller households, on average, than non-Christians (4.5 vs. 5.1 members). 34% of world's Christian population live in two parent families with minor children, while 29% live in household with extended ...

  6. Middle East and globalization - Wikipedia

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    Islam, a religion governed by its own set of laws, developed an alternate world view with many of the elements of globalization contradicting it. It has a powerful and cohesive community which at times acts like a cultural defence wall [ 2 ] against the Western influence and, as a result, limits the use of European languages in the Middle East .

  7. Westernization - Wikipedia

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    Westernization has been a growing influence across the world in the last few centuries, with some thinkers assuming Westernization to be the equivalent of modernization, [3] a way of thought that is often debated. The overall process of Westernization is often two-sided in that Western influences and interests themselves are joined with parts ...

  8. Dimensions of globalization - Wikipedia

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    Economic globalization is the intensification and stretching of economic interrelations around the globe. [3] [4] It encompasses such things as the emergence of a new global economic order, the internationalization of trade and finance, the changing power of transnational corporations, and the enhanced role of international economic institutions.

  9. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    The dominant, neoliberal model of globalization often increases disparities between a society's rich and its poor. [ 45 ] [ citation needed ] In major cities of developing countries there exist pockets where technologies of the modernised world, computers , cell phones and satellite television, exist alongside stark poverty.