Week 5:
Culture and Globalisation
Since
the age of time humans have always been interested in exploring our boundaries
and experiencing new frontiers, unlike in 1770 when James Cook charted his
fleet to Australia discovering Botany Bay, we have the luxury of quick travel
which can see you in another country 16 hours later whilst arriving on the same
day as you left. This relatively cheap and easy form of travel has allowed
globalization in terms of human migration to become prevalent in today’s
society. Travelling I feel is a great Australian tradition, whenever you’re
travelling around the globe you can always bet that you will run into an Aussie
in almost every place you go. But I digress…
Globalization
in forms of travel has allowed for culture to migrate and embed themselves in an
already established society, whilst contrary to many opinions I believe this to
be a good thing, for example Heathrow airport in 2011 had 69.39 million[1]
people pass through its airport, (this
mind you was a new record) with such a wide range of individuals visiting
your country the experience and depth of knowledge each traveler can provided
is invaluable to the development of your own country.
These
lessons come in all forms, but food seems to be a common quarter we can all
relate too, our different origins bring with it spices, flavors, techniques and
passion. Perhaps we have taken this cultural migration to a new level as there
seems to be a KFC or McDonalds on every corner, however the core concept of
human travelling I feel is an important stage of development not only for ones
self but for the country we visit and its people.
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