Chapter 23 Capitalism and Culture (pp.1137-1171) and Chapter 23 visual sources

As the chapter starts off, I learned about how there is a widespread availability of Barbie in Muslim Iran that has become a small example of power of global commerce in the world of the early twenty-first century. However other two other muslim dolls were created whose names are Sara and Dara, who are two Iranian Muslim dolls that counteract the negative influence of Barbie and Ken who had both dominated Iran's toy market. By creating both Sara and Dara this shows that there is not only resistance to the culture values that are associated with American products but also happens in the countries. Although there is a difference between Sara and Barbie there is also something in common which is that both were manufactured in China. We see a triangular relationship between United States, Iran, and China that symbolizes that growing integration of world economies and cultures and the conflicts that were generated by this process. There was an increase in dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences that occurred across the world's many peoples, countries, and regions that blinded them together more tightly and this all occurred during the twentieth century. Globalization was the process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples by the 1990s. Even though this term was new the process was not because globalization had occurred since far in the past. Places where globalization had once occurred was in the Arab, Mongol, Russian, Chinese, and Ottoman empires; also the Silk Road, Indian Ocean, and trans-Saharan trade routes; spread of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam were all connections that had long linked the societies of the Eastern Hemisphere. With these connections there would be new rulers, regions, products, disease, and technologies to the people who lived in these empires. Through the Columbian exchange the Western Hemisphere and inner Africa would be permanently brought into a global network of communication, exchange, and often exploitation. The four major process that would accelerate global interaction after the impact from World War II were transformation of the world economy, emergence of global feminism, the confrontation of world religions with modernity, and the growing awareness of humankind's enormous impact on the environment. We have come to see that commonly today there is american acceptialism were everyone in the world should try to be like America with a democracy. Feminism has become a main topic today meaning that women are free to express gifts and talents in the world. Many people think that we are not going into a post-modern era but a Anthropocene Era which involves humans who have the capacities to change the evolution of the world itself. This era outlines the challenges that people in the future or my generation will have to deal with.