Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Modern technology is creating a single world culture. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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Globalization imposes dramatic changes in the world’s economic and social structure, and environment especially ways of living. How technology has resulted into a single culture is elaborated here below.
Globalization, sciences and information technology have caused dramatic changes in social structure and made a great impact on cultures and way of living especially for youth. Any country that could adjust itself to advance technology and, at the same time, maintain its culture will be able to survive. Modern technology is rapidly changing the world's living standards that results in creating a single world culture. New technologies including Internet, television, electronic media, cellular telephony, means of transportation, etc have a great impact on creating an identical culture around the globe.
First of all, Internet and e-mail have changed the way people communicate to each other. Internet brought many benefits. It is a new means of communication, a fast access to information and news. People communicate with each other, share their ideas, happiness and difficulties. Greeting cards for New Year, Christmas, Get well and almost all pleasant and unpleasant happenings. Now alone cell phones are used for communication. Using fixed land line phones are obsolete now and this hold good globally.
Many people migrate during their lives. Some of them are looking for a better place to live; others want to get new experience and knowledge or just pleasure. So, many families have been created between people from different nations. This can be defined as Global Integration.
To sup up, modern technology has a great impact on the way people live now. It is creating a new single world culture of global integration and conventional traditions and distances are no longer significant.-
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