Comments on: The burning children of globalization http://www.languageonthemove.com/recent-posts/the-burning-children-of-globalization?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-burning-children-of-globalization Language learning, multilingualism, intercultural communication Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Language learning, multilingualism, intercultural communication « Translational Communication News http://www.languageonthemove.com/recent-posts/the-burning-children-of-globalization/comment-page-1#comment-550 Language learning, multilingualism, intercultural communication « Translational Communication News Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:25 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-550 [...] my Christmas post was of the gloomy kind, most blogs I follow had more heart-warming stories. Sociolingo Africa picked up a press release [...] [...] my Christmas post was of the gloomy kind, most blogs I follow had more heart-warming stories. Sociolingo Africa picked up a press release [...]

]]> By: Jenny Zhang http://www.languageonthemove.com/recent-posts/the-burning-children-of-globalization/comment-page-1#comment-387 Jenny Zhang Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:04:56 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-387 When I read this post, it is already three days after Christmas, a traditionally Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. However, nowadays in China where Christian population accounts for no more than 1% as well as many parts of the world, Christmas became a symbol of the West. The sweeping Christmas-mania together with English-fever in China has been gradually and deeply changing Chinese people, especially youngsters’ traditional values. In Wuhan, most shopping stores stayed open all night “at this festive season”, catching local people’s eyes with shining shop widows displaying luxurious Western commodities. What these Chinese people consumed are their underlying desires for and worship of the West rather than simply Christmas products. As one of the defining features of modern world, globalization not only brought about transnational flows of goods, service, capital, people, ideas, desires, but also exacerbated “dark sides” of modernity like polarized society, excessive centralization of power and capital, military threat and environmental damage. Unfortunately, the burning children in Africa are victims of globalization. When I read this post, it is already three days after Christmas, a traditionally Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. However, nowadays in China where Christian population accounts for no more than 1% as well as many parts of the world, Christmas became a symbol of the West. The sweeping Christmas-mania together with English-fever in China has been gradually and deeply changing Chinese people, especially youngsters’ traditional values. In Wuhan, most shopping stores stayed open all night “at this festive season”, catching local people’s eyes with shining shop widows displaying luxurious Western commodities. What these Chinese people consumed are their underlying desires for and worship of the West rather than simply Christmas products. As one of the defining features of modern world, globalization not only brought about transnational flows of goods, service, capital, people, ideas, desires, but also exacerbated “dark sides” of modernity like polarized society, excessive centralization of power and capital, military threat and environmental damage. Unfortunately, the burning children in Africa are victims of globalization.

]]> By: Vahid http://www.languageonthemove.com/recent-posts/the-burning-children-of-globalization/comment-page-1#comment-362 Vahid Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:17:24 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-362 Dear Ingrid, What a thought-provoking statement: """"a kind of material striptease of consumption that “the West” broadcasts to “the rest” and when “The Festive Season” is nothing more than an annual spike in this orgy of consumption""""" Aloha, Vahid Dear Ingrid,

What a thought-provoking statement:

“”"”a kind of material striptease of consumption that “the West” broadcasts to “the rest” and when “The Festive Season” is nothing more than an annual spike in this orgy of consumption”"”"”

Aloha,
Vahid

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