Cultural Conflict - Introduction Blog

 Identify the conflict. Is this an internal or external conclict? How/Why does globalization create conflict? In the speaker's opinion, globalization has flown in only one direction what does she mean by this? Although the speaker feels globalization has been one-sided, she notes there has been one benefit related to the process. What benefit dies she mention? The speaker says muslims and westerners live by/are obligated to two different sources of truth. What two sources (two texts) does she mention?

The conflict is external, leading to internal. Society's inability to accept other traditions and practices leads to a conflict inside oneself over the value and importance of tradition and faith in one's life: is it better to live under the social norm or to retain the ideologies that have defined one's family and people for centuries. Globalization is a process that takes other cultures and Westernizes them. It's the process of taking unique "backwards" countries and righting them so that they mirror that of western Europe and North America. Those two regions, however, rarely incorporate the unique aspects of other cultures during this process. One great benefit, however, is the opportunity for Muslim women to gain powerful female role models in influential Western women. The role models give oppressed Muslims the drive to push forward and achieve what was once inconceivable for women of the Islamic faith. The Koran and the Constitution are the two primary sources of truth for Muslims and Westerners.