Globalisation, Welcomed and Resisted
American culture arrives, and divides opinion
- Increased imports of U.S. technology and popular culture after World War II generated both enthusiasm and criticism.
- Both is the operative word — the CED refuses to say the reception was one thing.
- 8.2 had already made the United States a world power; here that power arrives as culture rather than policy.
U.S. technology and popular culture generated...
The CED refuses to say the reception was one thing.
New technologies multiply connections
- New communication and transportation technologies multiplied the connections across space and time, transforming daily life and contributing to the proliferation of ideas and to globalisation.
- This is 6.3's railway claim, one century on and one order of magnitude larger.
- Proliferation of ideas ties the technological thread to the intellectual one — connection changes what can be thought as well as shipped.
Select all the effects of the new communication and transportation technologies.
6.3's railway claim, one order of magnitude larger.
An organised critique
- Green parties in Western and Central Europe challenged consumerism, urged sustainable development, and, by the late 20th century, cautioned against globalisation.
- Three positions in sequence, and the CED dates the third: by the late 20th century.
- So the criticism has a party form, which makes it part of 6.1's collective responses rather than only an opinion.
A cause, a consequence, or the organised critique?
Sort each element of European globalisation.
Put the Green parties' three positions in the CED's order.
The CED dates the third.
"Both enthusiasm and criticism" is the CED's own balance. Imported U.S. technology and popular culture generated both, and Green parties eventually cautioned against globalisation — so an answer describing only welcome, or only resistance, has taken half of a two-sided claim the CED made deliberately.
5.5's revolution had the same two-sided shape — many inspired, others condemning.
So the honest answer always has two sides.
Enthusiasm and criticism, all the way through
- The pattern repeats: imports generate both reactions, connection transforms life and provokes a party against it.
- 5.5's revolution had exactly this shape — many were inspired... others condemned.
- So the honest answer to a globalisation question always has two sides, and the CED has supplied both.
Green parties give the criticism a ____ form, making it a collective response.
Not only an opinion.
Technological and cultural causes
- The objective asks for the technological and cultural causes and consequences of increasing European globalisation.
- Technological causes: communication and transportation multiplying connections. Cultural causes: imported technology and popular culture.
- Consequences: daily life transformed, ideas proliferating, and an organised critique of both.
The same broadcast that a teenager treats as an opening to the world is treated by a critic as the arrival of somebody else's world. Neither is describing a different broadcast, and a history that keeps only one of them has stopped being a history.
Increased imports of U.S. technology and popular culture after World War II generated both enthusiasm and criticism, and new communication and transportation technologies multiplied the connections across space and time, transforming daily life and contributing to the proliferation of ideas and to globalisation. Green parties in Western and Central Europe challenged consumerism, urged sustainable development, and, by the late 20th century, cautioned against globalisation — the criticism in organised, party form.