● According to Lowe Globalization is a late-twentieth-century condition of economic,

social, and political interdependence across cultures, societies, nations, and regions
precipitated by an unprecedented expansion of capitalism on a global scale.

True

● Lowe was lauded by scholars, policymakers, and activists as a world economic

● From Kaplan's "A World Without Boundaries" proliferation of free trade zones,
dismantling of tariffs and many more is globalization.

● American cultural studies tends to see globalization as signifying the end of US

● Communities of interpretation: "No one lives in direct contact either with truth or
with reality... But on the whole, we tend to disregard or minimize the extent to
which we depend for our sense of reality not just on the interpretations and
meanings we form individually for ourselves but also on those we receive"

● Our sense of truth and reality is shaped not by the cultural apparatus: television
and radio networks, the daily newspapers, mass-circulation news magazines, films,
etc.

● Media are not profit-seeking corporations that have an interest in promoting some
images of reality rather than others; the media set limits and maintain pressure on
what depictions of reality are allowed for reporters and commentators
 ● Kaplan argues that such ads are "trans/national": they represent the world in a way
that "signals a desire for the dissolution of boundaries to facilitate personal freedom
and ease of trade even as it articulates national and cultural characteristics as
distinct, innate markers of difference"

● Cultural difference sells, but the representation of difference through consumer

● The Body Shop discourse "establishes a complete dichotomy between developed and
underdeveloped, between First and Third World, such that any complex distinctions
and differentiations within those categories are not conveniently suppressed"

● The issue of globalization is linked with migration and with movement of capital
and commodities.

How has the experience of Hongkong become a great model and manifestation of
Sustainable development in the world? What are their practices that can be replicated in
other parts of the world?

The Sustainable Development Goals are applicable to Hong Kong to different degrees, as they
spread an expansive scope of practical advancement issues. While a portion of the objectives, for
example, putting an end to hunger and poverty, are less applicable to Hong Kong, other social
issues identified with well-being and instruction, battling environmental change and making
urban areas more manageable are specific relevant to the Hong Kong setting. They accept that
the information move, sharing experience, backing, and future cooperation openings with various
individuals from the Sustainable Development Goals system will help center and increment the
adequacy of the sustainability related endeavors in Hong Kong. Some of Hong Kong's practices
that can be imitated in different pieces of the world are: Ensuring healthy lives and advance
prosperity for all ages. Guaranteeing comprehensive and impartial quality education and
advanced deep rooted learning open doors for everyone. Advancing supported, comprehensive
and maintainable financial development, full and beneficial business, and good quality work for
all. Making urban communities and human settlements comprehensive, protected, strong and
feasible. Guaranteeing practical utilization and creation designs. Making a pressing move to
battle environmental change and its effects. Also, fortifying the methods for usage and renewing
the worldwide organization for maintainable turn of events.

What is the role of media and culture in ensuring that we are not eaten up by
Globalization? Do we really see media and culture as a tool or simply an ally of
globalization in propagating differences in the world today?
The media business is, from multiple points of view, ideal for globalization, or the spread of
worldwide exchange without respect for conventional political fringes. The worldwide reach of
media permits it to be applicable in various nations. Some have said that the media is really a
halfway reason for globalization, as opposed to simply one more globalized industry. Media is to
a great extent a cultural item, and the exchange of such item is probably going to have an impact
on the beneficiary's way of life or culture. Progressively, technological innovation has likewise
been pushing globalization. Innovation takes into consideration snappy correspondence, quick
and facilitated transport, and effective mass advertising, all of which have permitted
globalization particularly globalized media to grab hold. What is more, due to social contrasts,
globalization of media follows a model dissimilar to that of the globalization of different items.
On the most fundamental level, quite a bit of media is language and culture based and,
accordingly, does not really make an interpretation of well to unfamiliar nations. In this way,
media globalization regularly happens on a more auxiliary level, after more extensive methods of
sorting out and making media. In this sense, we can say that a media organization can have a
wide range of socially and culturally explicit brands and still keep up a monetarily globalized
corporate structure.

What do you think would be the role of the individual self in promoting Sustainability and
how can we as individuals contribute and alleviate the problems pertinent to sustainable
development?

We, as people, have a significant task to carry out. We ought to rethink our way of life, expect
some portion of the duty and begin making the important strides and individual activities so as to
contribute in making a more dependable business and network. Obviously, strategy and
organizations are significant, however basic change is all the more ready to happen when
individuals battle for it. A cultural change is an extraordinary procedure where little activities are
major. At the point when polished reliably, little activities lead to esteem change that additionally
rouses expansive activity. While this may sound possibly hard to accomplish, an ever increasing
number of individuals, organizations and networks the world over are finding that a little change
in disposition and duty can have a genuine effect. So let us grasp that rope and let us begin
making the little strides that causes us to feel perceived and may likewise move others to make
little strides towards a more supportable way of life. The test is tremendous and so as to succeed,
we should understand that albeit little activities can appear to be irrelevant, it is in reality basic.
On the off chance that we, as people, feel by and by included and focused on maintainability
then we are establishing the frameworks to grasp a change on a cultural level.

How do you see food security becoming a problem for many developing nations given the
continuous rise in cases of COVID-19, what can be done in order to address this pressing
and looming problem of food security? please cite specific examples.
At the moment of the rise of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), many individuals all over
the world needed access to satisfactory and adequate food. This is the reason the current test on
food security is especially genuine. Inside this populace lacking adequate food, a huge number of
individuals experience the ill effects of extreme food insufficiencies, and their circumstance
might be basically disturbed by the development of the pandemic. Issues of food security stretch
out past basic regions particularly in outskirt regions where an enormous number of uprooted
individuals experience the ill effects of incessant food lack and emerge in devastated
neighborhoods of huge urban areas, where COVID-19 has pulverized occupations and salaries.
The way to food security is consistent and methodical access to food that is adequate in amount
and quality. On account of COVID-19, the issue of access isn't such a great amount because of
an absence of accessibility of food since the worldwide gracefully is plentiful, but instead to an
unexpected and calamitous drop in salary and business or work. This is the circumstance in many
creating countries, yet it is likewise found in more developed nations. It is along these lines
important to keep markets open, and not to intrude on them falsely with duty boundaries,
portions, fringe terminations, or to expand the expenses of coordinations and transport chains.
Simultaneously, governments should likewise guarantee that installment and financing chains are
not cut. Available credit to help agri-food exercises is fundamental. To this end, we have to
consider broadening the appropriations and moves that were at that point being given in many
nations. At long last, let us not overlook that immediate food help will likewise be required in
numerous nations.