Globalization and Local Cultures Most people regard globalization as the big enemy to local cultures. But I don’t agree this point of view totally. I do think that globalization has a influence on local cultures, but I think the influence is not always so harmful. First, I want to talk about globalization. Globalization is the way we must pass if our human beings want to gain more achievements. Globalization brings us lots of advantages. In the era of Globalization, factory can produce productions more efficiently. For example, a digital camera, which is designed in Japan, may have some parts of it produced in Thailand, for it cost less money to build a factory there and it’s cheap to employ Thai people. Then those parts are transported to China to make them together, the country famous of manpower. Finally, we make a digital camera. And we transport it to Japan for selling all over the world. On this way we not only reduce the cost of a production but give lots of working opportunities. After knowing the importance of globalization, let’s see whether Globalization have badly destroyed Local Cultures. Many people complain the buildings in different countries stand the same. They say they miss the traditional life style and the houses with small gardens. But if we have these in our city, what will happen? I don’t think we can have enough spaces for us live in the same city, and also spaces to have convenient public traffic. And think about our local cultures, we still have lots of knowledge about it, though not as many as our parents. But I think when I grow old and have more experience I will understand the local culture like my parents did. To sum up, globalization and local culture is not a big contradiction. But I don’t mean we can ignore our local culture. There are some people (mostly in poor districts) study foreign culture instead of their own civilization. They don’t look highly of their culture. That is the real enemy to local culture. Actually, every civilization, which has suffered from thousands of years of cruelly choosing, has their own advantages. Not refusing globalization and being proud of our local culture, I have the confidence to reach a higher degree. And thanks for globalization, we can listen to a beautiful song written by John Lennon and played at Sitar. Thanks for your reading:)