globalisation and its effects
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The aim of globalisation is to eliminate all established boundaries, cultural or otherwise, which prevent the establishment of a ?global community?. Bringing with it cultural materialism, capitalist expansion, multiculturalism and leaving many nations stagnating in the postcolonial condition, globalisation has served only to isolate individuals and breakdown connections, both spiritual and emotional to many communities? cultural roots. Globalisation tends to standardise, whereas local emphasises difference. The relationship between the local and the global can be expressed as this: local processes and communities are being overrun by global forces and are being assimilated into a global society, losing their culture and their values in the process. In effect, the global society threatens to overwhelm all those individuals and cultures which inhabit it. The forces of globalisation create an imbalance between global and local aspects of community life and tend to isolate individuals, who crave human connection and links to a community, which are lost with the gradual encroachment of globalisation. The relationships between the global and the local and the significance of these relationships to the life of the individual and his or her community have been explored in many recent texts, most notably, ?The Lost Salt Gift of Blood..