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Gwich N The Mosuo Culture Analysis

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Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology (Globalization 101). Globalization has progressively integrated its way into all countries, consequently, it has also integrated its way in the Gwich’n society and the Mosuo people of Southwest China leaving both positive and negative impacts on their traditional culture and society. The Gwich’ns Society are indigenous people of northwest Canada. In the Gwich’n society their role is to maintain their own cultural identity and unique healthy lifestyle; they do this by developing subsistent strategies as a mean and ways to survive. …show more content…

The Caribou herd is Gwich’ns main source of food. However, due to globalization the Gwich’n …show more content…

However, the growth of the global economy isn’t through transnationalism but internal tourism , meaning the tourist that mostly visit the area are the same people of China but from different ethnic group in China, one of those groups are the “Han China”. Subsequently, with the introduction of technology (electricity, television, internet and phones) and more communication with the outside world, tourism has impacted the traditions of the Mosuo people, and their matrilineal culture is changing. The younger generation have become curious about the outside world, in that, some want to experience what they see on television, they want to experience a world outside of the Mosuo culture (urban life). Therefore they leave “the kingdom” to gain such experiences but eventually some of them return home because they cannot manage the city life. One example is the story of the ‘Mosuo sisters” where both of them left the village but had to return home because of recession. One of the sister left the village for a second time, meanwhile the other stayed and decide to live her traditional lifestyle. Another impact on the Mosuo global economy through internal tourism was the practice of prostitution, the Mosuo women was portrayed as prostitutes (frequently changing partners) however, this was not so, the tourism

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