Economic Globalization's influence on traditional culture

Economic Globalization's influence on traditional culture Abstract: The process of economic globalization is unstoppable nowadays, and foreign cultures have a great impact on traditional Chinese culture.We should treat foreign cultures in appropriate mentality and vigorously promote Chinese culture. We should absorb advanced foreign cultures and cope them well with native culture. In the competition of cultures, wo need grasp every chance to develop advanced socialist culture.

Key words: economic globalization; traditional culture; challenge; development; countermeasure

1. The meaning of globalization and economic globalization

Globalization refers to the increasing global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity. It is generally used to refer to economic globalization: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas and the reduction of restrictions on the movement of capital and on investment.

Economic globalization refers to increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, service, technology and capital. Whereas globalization is centered around the diminution of international trade regulations as well as tariffs, taxes, and other impediments that suppresses global trade, economic globalization is the process of increasing economic integration between countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market. Depending on the paradigm, economic globalization can be viewed as either a positive or a negative phenomenon.

2. Challenges that traditional Chinese culture confronts

In 2001, China joined into WTO again.It could be seen as a symbol of China's start in globalization. In the irreversible trend of globalization, China has more chances to communicate with world. With the degree of globalization becoming higher every year, it is inevitable that western cultures, especially English culture which depends on America's mighty economy, are constantly expanding in the world. Under the strike of English culture, non-English culture's countries, backward countries in particular, are facing existential crisis. In order to preserve cultures' existence and development, many countries have advanced a series of policies to protect traditional cultures. Under this circumstance, traditional Chinese culture is also confronting many challenges. While protecting traditional culture, how to embody the era of cultures' development and how to let traditional culture and foreign cultures be of multiple coexistence are becoming urgent problem to be solved .

2.1.The strike that economic globalization brings on traditional Chinese culture 2.1.1 The strike on our country's guiding ideology during the trend of cultural diversity

In the tendency of economic globalization, national cultures are coexisting and co-developing because anything values of culture is organic unity of human community, race, class and region. Hostile western forces who rely on the advantages of economy and politics are trying their best to disseminate western value and life-style. They preach cultural diversity and value's diversification. While unhealthy culture is intruding, people's faith, values and other things are probably changing which would shake guiding role of Marxism in China.

2.1.2 The strike on our traditional culture

Under the trend of economic globalization, it demands participants to conform to the rule of modern market economy for economic reasons; from the cultural point of view, all valuable cultures have nationality and temporal spirit, and nationality is the most noticeable characteristic and advantage of culture. Our country is developing country and economy and culture are in weak position so that economic globalization will certainly shock our traditional culture. So that how to maintain the nationality of culture under the trend of globalization while developing our country's advanced culture is a severe and urgent issue.

2.1.3 The erosion of the battle field of our country's culture

Cultures' propaganda and exchange must proceed by certain channels and ways. Internet, which has a title of the fourth media, plays an alternative role in promoting the dissemination of culture. Because western countries are in great advantage of economy and technology that leads the dissemination, which relies on internet, to lose reciprocity and equivalency and leads it to be unequal and unidirectional penetration so that western culture could spread in the world and imperceptibly influence people's way of thinking and values. So how to defend culture's battle field in the tendency of globalization has becoming a major task which we must confront with.

3.The significance of protecting traditional culture and absorbing foreign cultures

Human world is a huge social system which is consisted of various cultures. Throughout the history of human civilization, the significant characteristic of cultural development is that maintaining native culture's ethnic features while absorbing the quintessence of foreign cultures when touching and colliding with foreign cultures. The large amounts of imports of foreign cultures will result into the mutual collision of various cultures which could promote the prosperity and develop of native culture. And the particular Chinese culture is one indispensable member. No matter whatever culture, if it is in a close state for a long time, would stop developing and fall behind. The traditional Chinese culture has a long history. It is a accumulation of humanistic spirit of Chinese culture and the root to a nation and national soul as well. The new era has endowed traditional Chinese culture with new connotations and significances. In a globalizing world, in order to develop traditional culture, we should maintain our own characteristics and scientifically absorb the quintessence of foreign cultures meantime. Thereof the protection of traditional culture and assimilation o f foreign cultures have a great significance. They are the requirement of developing Marxism,

liberating thinkings and booming socialist culture.

4.The countermeasure of developing Chinese culture

4.1 Insist the forward direction of advanced culture.

4.2 Inherit and promote excellent traditional Chinese culture.

4.3 Insist culture opening and promote talks and communications.

4.4 Insist self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement.

5.Conclusion

As the communication among various cultures has been more and more tight because of economic globalization, the development of world civilization need diversification of cultures. When foreign cultures constantly strike traditional Chinese culture, we should strength competitiveness——protect our culture and absorb advanced foreign cultures.