When international media (including movies, fashion, advertisement and other TV programs) convey the same message to the global audience, people argue that the expansion of international media has a negative impact on cultural diversity. Discuss your opinion?

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It is common knowledge that
international media
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the international media
has
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have
the power to influence people and the perception of different cultures on a global scale. The growth of
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a monopolized platform can greatly distort cultural diversity based on its history of telling the same stories about a
people
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person
or a place
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in
the world.
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essay will discuss the harmful results that
international media
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the international media
has on the variation of customs and traditions. American
culture
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is at the
center
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
centre
of worldwide media and
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is credited to the fact that most of the biggest movies, Tv shows and fashion shows are produced and aired in the USA. Time warner, an entertainment Outfit
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infamous for controlling the industry is equally an American company. We could say the American people are the champions of the western way of life which celebrates material things and maximization of ones benefit as opposed to communal living and collective ownership of accomplishments and successes. The Asians and Africans are more conservative and value family, community and religion more intently.
Unfortunately stories
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Unfortunately, stories
like
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are not popularly told on Tv or radio. The globalization of western
culture
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perpetuates a stereotype
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harmful and dishonest because
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is far from the variety of the ways of life of the different people all over the planet. The English language, Music, slangs and
menus
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the menus
are slowly but steadily encroaching and replacing the realities of other people as they are often the options at public spaces
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as banking halls, airports, restaurants and even Universities across the world. The greatest harm is done to the younger generation who lose their sense of identity and fail to transfer their norms and beliefs to the
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Generation.
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, in Nigeria a huge population of people under 35
can not
can not
cannot
speak any of the local languages, prefer Hollywood films to local films and do not have a taste for the local cuisine. As shown above, international media
is rapidly exporting
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are rapidly exporting
and normalizing western
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and
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fast erasing indigenous
culture
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and pushing them into possible extinction.

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