| Globalization is not only a problem of economy, but also a problem of culture, furthermore, it can not be mentioned without regarding capital. The reason is not only because of capital itself rooted in the western rational metaphysical culture, the principal part of which is science and technology, but because it has promoted the global colonization of western culture. In the era of capitalization, both the production and consumption of culture and promulgation and naturalization are submitted to served for the principle of capital. Definitely, the theory of globalization is rather perfectly included in Marxism historical materialism. In fact, the theory of "World History" of Marxism has indicated the existence of globalization. According to him, economy globalization has twoness: one is the process of socialization of production over the world, the other is the expanding process of productivity relation of capitalism over the world.Although commerce is an important factor of early globalization, its initiative is still warfare, which not only establish the territorial world empire, but also accelerate global culture communication. Nowadays, our history in a great extent is the result of lasting conflicting and syncretizing. While in modern times, the process of globalization is the process of capital expanding, which inevitably impel the globalization of western culture, and influence the relationship of human beings, and boost the world colonization of western culture, which emphasizes on individualism. During this process, the world is linked into one tight combination, which makes human beings overstep the confines of nation and district, and becomes one uniform global history. In the face of expanding of western culture, each nation will give different response from it own culture baseline. Thus, despite historical foresight, only have we intercontinental culture prospect, can we discern the hindrance and retardarce of Chinese culture in the turn of modernization.In a certain sense, economy globalization itself is or means culture globalization. Culture in globalization era is not a single or unitaryculture hegemony, but muti-cultural interactive formation which concerns the common value orientation and value pursuit. In such view of culture, the subject is not extreme individuation, but start to become truly world citizen developing with the whole human species. One important cultural result of contemporary globalization is the rise of consumption culture, which is also originated from the principle capital, that is overproduction. Nowadays, consumption is one of the most important impulse of the whole social production, including cultural production. Not only the production of matter product but also cultural product and its promulgation are all enslaved to the principle of consumptionism. Technology logos clears up the principle of taste.In the process of globalization, our national culture shows slow-moving transferring, mainly because of the super-steady structure of Chinese ethics. It is difficult to produce new cultural elements from interior, unless resorting to exterior critical reconstruction can realize such transferring, which cannot resist the influence of western culture, whereas only through culture based on traditional base can be solved. Oneness only based on muti-cultural is the true oneness, and the real "universal harmony" does not refer to the completely melting of different system of civilization, but means abiding by common contracting rules, muti-civilization identify from inside and tolerate from outside, and try one' s best to restrict the cultural conflict to the bottom line. |
