Answer to Question #178574 in English for Melat Brhane

Question

What are the pros and cons of homogenization of people with each other due to traveling and the internet?

Answer 1

Benefits

Easier and potentially improved conversation (though variations probably demand a more detailed analysis of one's own society and might actually change the way you express its values).

More global collaboration owing to mutual world knowledge, shared priorities and common methodologies. Global collaboration probably involves a certain degree of similarity, beliefs are expressed in common societies.

Larger entertainment (music, tv, etc.) industry that attracts general tastes and fads. Scale savings accomplished. More customer options.

More predictability of the behavior of others.

Dismerits

Less diversity in thoughts. Different societies are powerful experiments in how a community might otherwise function and offer examples that criticize current values and status quo. They inspire shifts in every particular society.

Few freedom to leave your own society because you want it.

Uniformity of blandness. Much of them are impressed by the way a very new method operates.

Any aspect of "specialization" can arise from various cultures. This might lead to a net economic loss (in isolation)