Globalism, Localism, and the Expansion of tradition

u of Hidalgo , Mexico and Clearwater , Florida

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u of Hidalgo , Mexico and Clearwater , Florida , are victims of this trend

Thesis

u people have successfully pursued the problems of desolation and abject poverty . Facing them now is the challenge of globalism and modernization at the expense of detruncating their cultural elements . Their mode of pursuit of this challenge of ethnic and cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization is quite fascinating , leaving the reader waddling in disillusionment

Main points

u people now have a

relatively better access to electricity , phones and other modes of communication , thus easing and promoting knowledge through interacting with other communities . A study by Schmidt (2007 postulates that people 's degree of access to the outside world determines their exchange levels for cultural elements

us ' pursuit of modernity and globalism while upholding their cultural tenets is a complex process that eludes facile explanations (Baumann 1975

Analysis

u have migrated and are using electronic media for remitting information . This has not only sped up the mutual processes of cultural negotiation

and appropriation but also symbolizes a new sense of the global as modern and the modern as global (Appadurai , 1996 ,

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u are transforming to modernity at the same time upholding their indigenous values and identities . For example , in an effort to promote the Mexican culture and Spanish language , community leaders are trained in the bilingual indigenous schools (Baumann , 1975

Schmidt concludes the article by briefly highlighting the dialectics of the

u are...