An Argument Of Cultural Change In Globalization

China launched the unprecedented reformation and openness in the last decades of the 20 century during which many events unfamiliar and novel were flooding in. In addition to accepting them, China positively participated in the competitive setup of modernization and globalization in which an earthshaking change took place. Comparatively speaking, the increasing strength in politics, economy of China has accompanied the backwardness in cultural development which hardly fit in with the needs of the modernization. Therefore, while confronting advanced culture, in what attitude China should take toward it and how to improve the adaptation of national culture have been the focal point in current culture studies. China, a developing country under the pressure of cultural expansion and cultural infiltration from some Western countries with the United States as their leader, is confronted with arduous task to secure national culture. As the spreading of knowledge and technology all over the world from Western countries, English has become an instrument for international trade and communication; an indispensable skill for education; the compulsory social skill of the youth in his socializing process. Studying a foreign language determines the absorption in its culture since language is the carrier of culture. However, because being in particular physiological stage, the youth's outlook on life and values is immature. In the language acquisition, whether exotic culture affect the youth, what the effect is, how the effect take place are in discussion and, in order to lay a good foundation for cultural developing direction, for us how to give proper guidance as to establishing correct cultural concept while facing the cultural change existing in the youth. Through the analysis and exposition in this thesis, we hope that the cultural developing situation of the youth in globalizing era could be depicted objectively and tentative suggestion could be proposed.The body includes four parts: the first part explores the relationship among globalization, culture and language. In this part, its relationship is analyzed from the logic relation among world politics, economy and culture in the first place. In the following, the relationship between language and culture, that is: culture is the essence of language as well as language is the carrier of culture. Finally, the logic relation between globalization, culture and language is summarized. The second part refers to the cultural change of the teenagers in language acquisition and the challenge it brings under the historical background of English being the world language. The cultural change is analyzed from the following two aspects: the surface culture and the deep culture. The youth cultural change between surface and deep culture explored in the third part impacted Chinese national culture. The impact contains: the conflict in economic interests; the shock to Chinese traditional culture; the shock to the national identification of the youth. Finally, how cultural change, the change mechanism in culture, emerges in language acquisition of the youth is further discussed in the fourth part. With a view to this, some tentative suggestions are proposed.The research methods taken in this thesis are: theories review in order to sort out and summarize the cultural change home and abroad; questionnaire survey to the youth cultural change situation; case interview as a supplement to the problems beyond the reach of questionnaire.By on-the-spot investigation and theoretical analyses, we found that the youth cultural condition had become cultural change. This proposes a new challenge to the cultural construction in our country—how should we help the youth in his socialization in globalization era? Some proposals are given in conclusion part.