Culture Blend in a Global Age

By: Rachel Ortlinghaus

The main idea of the article “Culture Blend in a Global Age” is that technology has increased the contact among the worlds people, changing their cultures. When a culture’s background is changed its also known as Popular Culture. Popular Culture contains music, sports, movies, fashions, and foods.

Culture Blend matters today because globalization has changed the ways people live, beliefs, attitudes, and communications. I think that the three biggest ways that culture blend is shown is fashion, foods, and music.

Cultural Blend has been shown through fashion all throughout the world. For example, all countries have been becoming more materialism. Materialism is the tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.

AMERICA 

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Jeans are from America but more people in Asia have started to wear them. White wedding dresses are also being brought to Asia, more women want a white wedding dress rather than their traditional dress.

ASIA 

There are lots of designers that are from Asia but have lot of their clothing and fashion lines here in America. For example, there’s Barney Cheng, Alex Wang, and Vera Wang.

Maria Luisa Ortiz

In the picture above it’s not Maria. Maria designs clothes for wealthy women and brides-to-be. Her partner is Veronica Alvarez.

Franca Lovely Chus 

Franca was known for designing shoe with a think heel and cool patterns. All of her shoes are hand made in Columbia.

There are a lot of European fashion designers that have been brought to America. They are the more high class designers and they’re very expensive. Ralph Lauren

Prada Michael Kors

Louis Vuitton Chanel

Olga Vilshenko Olga is a very popular fashion designer in Russia. Her fashion collections get inspired by her country, everything around her inspires her.

Dasha Gauser 

Dasha style is more for the younger age women. She’s also one of the younger fashion designers.

Fashion matters now because everyone uses it today. Fashion is everywhere, when you look at or met someone the first thing you notice about them is their sense of style. Many people these days are all materialistic and like the more expensive and higher class brands.

I believe that it’s a good thing that culture are becoming more Westernized because its developing many countries and helping them with their standard of living. Also its helping governments work together toward the same common goal. But I also believe that its important for countries to still their own uniqueness. They should all still have

Click here for video !!! This video shows how fashion is spread throughout the world. 

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http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/01/11/four-asiandesigners-to-watch/ http://www.justluxe.com/community/southamerican-luxury-fashion-designers-towatch_a_1819349.php

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http://www.scientificpsychic.com/alpha/fashion.htm l http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/style-hunter-meetsrussian-fashion-designer-olga-vilshenko122756791.html

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http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandi ssues/a/globalization.htm