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Globalization/Cultural Nationalism in St. Cloud

I was reading through the St. Cloud Times online edition this morning and ran across an article that I think ties very closely with globalization and is specific in some parts of the area in addressing cultural nationalism. The article talks about the story of a St. Cloud State student named Subigya Shayka who is attending school in St. Cloud from Nepal.

The article first starts out describing elections in Nepal and all the violence that is centered around it. I'm sure we'll learn about this political situation later on College Geo. However, in the article I felt that Cultural nationalism was mentioned when Shayka told the Times that many times he and his friends listen to music by AC/DC, Def Leppord and Deep Purple. I'm not really sure who Deep Purple is though. I believe this though is an example of how the Western influence in media, specifically music, has reached Nepal.

One other area of globalization that I think people also make overlook is schools. Many colleges these days are very diverse. The article sites that St. Cloud State is home to 160-180 people from Nepal. I also found through St. Cloud State's website that there are more than 84 countries represented at the college.

I think that students coming from all over the world to study abroad in American colleges is a form of globalization in itself. Certainly there was likely a time when colleges were learning institutions only for people in the same country, especially back when communication throughout the world wasn't as convenient and easy. People are worried that globalization will affect us today (kids) because we will be competing against people all over the world for jobs because of the high standards in education. It's interesting to note however that this is already happening. We're already competing against students from all over the world to get the education to get jobs; it will be just a matter of time before we're competing for the actual jobs.

Here's the article up for read: Click here

posted by Kevin Hurd @ 2/11/2006 10:50:00 PM