Comments on: The burning children of globalization https://languageonthemove.com/the-burning-children-of-globalization/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Fri, 25 Sep 2020 23:22:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Covid-19 misinformation between globalization and the reptilian brain - Language on the Move https://languageonthemove.com/the-burning-children-of-globalization/#comment-74507 Fri, 25 Sep 2020 23:22:16 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-74507 […] around the world – wealth and prosperity together with equality and respect. Unfortunately, these have turned out to be chimeras. How is anyone to know that the measures taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 are not another such […]

]]> By: Language learning, multilingualism, intercultural communication « Translational Communication News https://languageonthemove.com/the-burning-children-of-globalization/#comment-550 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:25 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-550 […] my Christmas post was of the gloomy kind, most blogs I follow had more heart-warming stories. Sociolingo Africa picked up a press release […]

]]> By: Jenny Zhang https://languageonthemove.com/the-burning-children-of-globalization/#comment-387 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:04:56 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-387 When I read this post, it is already three days after Christmas, a traditionally Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. However, nowadays in China where Christian population accounts for no more than 1% as well as many parts of the world, Christmas became a symbol of the West. The sweeping Christmas-mania together with English-fever in China has been gradually and deeply changing Chinese people, especially youngsters’ traditional values. In Wuhan, most shopping stores stayed open all night “at this festive season”, catching local people’s eyes with shining shop widows displaying luxurious Western commodities. What these Chinese people consumed are their underlying desires for and worship of the West rather than simply Christmas products. As one of the defining features of modern world, globalization not only brought about transnational flows of goods, service, capital, people, ideas, desires, but also exacerbated “dark sides” of modernity like polarized society, excessive centralization of power and capital, military threat and environmental damage. Unfortunately, the burning children in Africa are victims of globalization.

]]> By: Vahid https://languageonthemove.com/the-burning-children-of-globalization/#comment-362 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:17:24 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/blog/?p=278#comment-362 Dear Ingrid,

What a thought-provoking statement:

“”””a kind of material striptease of consumption that “the West” broadcasts to “the rest” and when “The Festive Season” is nothing more than an annual spike in this orgy of consumption”””””

Aloha,
Vahid

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