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The view that global culture is not just becoming uniform, but rather more complex and varied as global and local forces interact.

A term coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the world is contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time.

The emergence of English as a global lingua franca, which can lead to both more efficient global communication and language homogenization.

Composed of elements of the Enlightenment worldview, which include a blending of the 'ideas' of democracy, welfare, rights, and sovereignty.

The adoption of elements of one culture by members of another culture, which can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.

The practice of promoting and imposing a culture, usually that of a politically powerful nation, over a less powerful society.

The gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, and those that don't or have restricted access.

The process through which local cultures are transformed or absorbed by a dominant outside culture.

A social phenomenon and scholarly research agenda which is concerned with the ties and interactions between people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.

The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another.

The process by which the principles of fast-food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectors of societies worldwide.

The global configuration of technology, and the fluid and uncertain flows of technology embody cultural motifs through these flows.

The electronic capability to produce and disseminate information and images to wide audiences.

The global movement of money, including currency, equities, and capital, which can be highly volatile and de-territorialized.

The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.

The ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality.

A musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes traditional music, non-Western classical music, and more.

One of Arjun Appadurai’s 5 dimensions of global cultural flows, referring to the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guestworkers.

A form of culture that emphasizes consumption of goods and services and the norms, values, and practices that come with them.