The internationalization of culture is a process in which cultural differences between different regions, peoples and countries are erased. Culture takes on general forms on a global scale. On the one hand, this facilitates mutual understanding between people of different cultures, and on the other, it makes life in different parts of the planet more uniform.
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The process of internationalization of cultures has existed at all times, throughout the history of mankind. It is wrong to think that in the past each nation lived its own unique life, not knowing anything about its neighbors. People have always traveled, traded and moved across the Earth, therefore, various knowledge and cultural achievements, although not very fast, but still over time became the property of all mankind. Therefore, the internationalization of culture is directly related to the speed of the information transfer process.
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In the past, information could travel at the same speed as a person: on a horse-drawn cart, as part of a caravan, on a sea or river ship, or on foot — that is how people traveled in the past. Then technology began to develop, steam engines and relatively high-speed ships appeared, and then cars with internal combustion engines, followed by jet aircraft capable of circling the entire planet in less than a day. With the development of speed of movement, it has become easier for people to keep in touch. But still there were territories for quite some time, access to which was rather difficult. Even in the twentieth century, it was possible to find peoples who led almost primitive ways of life.
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The internationalization of culture took a completely different scale and a completely different speed with the advent of communication technology. At first it was a telegraph, then a telephone line, radio and television, and today the whole planet is surrounded by a system of cables that transmit data with great speed, cellular communication has become available almost everywhere, and satellite communication is absolutely at every point on the planet. Now people do not need to move around to communicate information. It is enough to contact the right person using some technology and tell him everything in real time with zero delay.
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It is with the development of the Internet that the acceleration of the internationalization of culture, which is also called globalization, is associated. The national identity of small nations, which includes art, languages and lifestyles, is inexorably lost by those who adopt the western way of life that is dominant in the modern world. This process cannot be stopped: you will never prove to a native of a remote island in the Pacific Ocean that he must live in a hut in order to preserve his culture, instead of moving to a comfortable house with air conditioning. At present, a number of peoples, within the framework of their national identity, retain, first of all, economic conditions. Poverty forces people to lead a traditional way of life, even if they would be glad to abandon it.
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The internationalization of culture is also associated with economic globalization. In the recent past, the world economy was presented to theorists as the interaction of national economies with each other. But in the modern world, more and more often it is possible to meet cases when several national economies are combined into a single whole, benefiting a lot from such cooperation. This is easily seen in the example of the European Union. The internationalization of most processes is an inevitable process, from which, despite all the losses, many benefits can be derived.
