Look at this:
The Germans will never stop loving Wurst, and even though we in the UK might sell some bits of German food in the supermarket, the embedding of 'other' cultural behaviours is not as simple as importing a product. And the Germans certainly won't be giving up their Wurst.
This kind of thing, (below) I HAVE seen transported to England (Birmingham does a 'WeihnachtsMarkt' in its city centre every year ....
but even after it is brought here , it nevertheless remains a German thing. It is not now n English thing just because it has come here.
We seem determined to keep local identities very alive and very kicking, even where we want to adopt new artefacts and practices into our cultures. We put chips on our curry; we eat huge plates of pasta (unlike the Italians) we adapt as well as absorb.
And the same with language ... Ok I know some languages have disappeared and English is everywhere, but regional accents and dialects remain and I think people want to show allegiances to the smaller groups they belong to, as well as wanting to be part of a global group.
You can be both.
Look at 'English as an Asian language'.
In language, we usually keep the grammar intact while we add new words. Vocabulary tends to be 'dropped in' but does not change the structure.
I disagree that:
'Globalisation is a war on all other cultures'
The tendency seems to be to make new ideas, new items our own.
We develop in ways which suit the existing culture.
Just take a look at kids and popular culture ... whatever the manufacturers want the kids to do, they will discriminatively adapt to their own ends.Agreed they are seduced by new things, by colour, by e additives. But. It is not wholesale unthinking, mindless. Globalistion does not make people stupid. Kids manipulate computer programmes to play in the ways THEY want ... and so on and so on.
I think we like to make the global local.
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