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tesadevina on August 31st, 2006
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CULTURAL PROTECTIONISM
Free Trade is widening the opportunity for mass inflows of foreign products. How far must the government restrict rules to allow foreign commodities and services to enter other countries in the quest of preserving their own culture?
I think the article below that I took from a Duke alumni’s blog can give an intro about how some people think ‘American products are taking over the world’ therefore other countries need cultural protectionism agains their own products.
1.11.2005
Cultural protectionism
Arthur Chrenkoff smacks down those who fret about American culture taking over the world:
1) Even after you take into consideration the power of advertising and marketing, you have to give the consumer some due: the reason why the American popular culture is so popular around the world is that people want to watch it, listen to it, and read it. The complaints of cultural protectionists are no different from those of any other producer who finds himself outperformed by a competitor offering cheaper, better, or more attractive products.
2) The “sky is falling” argument that local product is being swamped and sent into extinction by rapacious McCulture is a complete hogwash. Yes, the American product (as opposed to, say, Islamic or Hindu one) is the only one with a truly global appeal, but local culture continues to thrive everywhere around the world, not the least thanks to the same technological advancements, such as Internet, that make the American product so accessible.
3) In the end, all the hostility directed at the American popular culture by critics worldwide is to a large extent a misplaced anger at your own people: how dare they, traitors, want the American stuff, when our home-grown is so much better. People from Cairo to Calcutta, from Lagos to Lima, are fascinated by the American product because of what it represents: the confidence, optimism and opportunities of the world’s most successful economy and the most desired society (we, in communist Poland, certainly did). The critics understand that fact implicitly, which is why those who dislike the American culture are also very likely to be hostile to American political and economic systems, American foreign policy and other aspects of American life. So, in many ways, culture wars are merely a continuation of political conflict through other means.
Related to #2 is economist Tyler Cowen’s argument that globalization, rather than destroying local cultures, is encouraging them to flourish around the world. Globalization creates a larger market not only for Coke and McDonalds, but also for the cultural products of all other countries–for example, just think of the wide variety of world music and ethnic restaurants you can sample in the US.
Hat tip to Booker Rising.
posted by Katie at 11:14 PM
http://aconstrainedvision.blogspot.com/2005/01/cultural-protectionism.html
The Australian Television Issue
http://www.cis.org.au/Events/bertkelly/bk599text.html
Bagaimana dengan pandangan Indonesia?
Pro globalisasi? Kontra globalisasi? Apakah kita mengakui bahwa warga kita memang lebih memilih produk luar negeri? Apakah kita bisa berkompetisi dengan produk luar negeri di pasaran? Apakah justru globalisasi membuka pintu dan memudahkan kita untuk menyebarluaskan produk dan kultur kita?
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tesadevina on August 29th, 2006
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Wah, akhirnya aku bertemu dengan kata itu. Jadi ingat temanku Anta yang selama ini mengemban ilmu filsafat. Dia sudah memberiku peringatan: Pasti kamu nanti akan banyak belajar filosofi! Ku jamin deh (sambil mengangkat alis mata dan menarik senyuman). I guess you’re right old pal. Hiks hiks hiks, akhirnya aku harus menyelami duniamu juga.
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tesadevina on August 28th, 2006
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Kenapa nggak dari dulu ku pakai software ini? Ternyata sudah ada sejak 10 tahun yang lalu! Kan bisa menyusunkan daftar pustaka secara automatis dan bisa diubah format dan style-nya sekehendak kita. Ku kira hanya buat yang menyusun buku. Gimana dengan yang menyusun skripsi atau makalah? Wah, jan dasar aku memang ketinggalan jaman!
It makes writing so much less of a hassle now.
Thank you EndNote!
http://www.endnote.com/enoldreleases.asp
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tesadevina on August 27th, 2006
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Did you get an email too?
Saya sih, percaya saja. Siapa tahu benar. Nanti nyesal kalau nggak mengambil kesempatan mencari kebenaran itu. Namun, apa yang ku lihat?
Was it really true, that Mars reached its closest point to earth this night? Sources clearly said NO.
Was it just a misleading mail to fool every single gullible soul? It’s not April.
Was it just to raise the demands of telescopes so that telescope producers will profit?
Was it to arouse the curiousness of children to start learing Austronomy?
We’ll never know.
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/07/27/no-mars-wont-look-as-big-as-the-moon-in-august/
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tesadevina on August 27th, 2006
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What’s Tri-Lingual?
What’s Tri-Lingual is… the languages I’ll use in my site!
It will be in 3 languages mainly English, Indoneisan (Bahasa Indonesia), and Javanese (Jawa Ngoko/Madya tergantung!). Maybe occasionally bits and pieces of other languages too, but I’m expecting those 3 main audiences to read my blog. This is also so that my parents wont need to call 24/7 from the other hemisphere to ask what I’m up to.
I apoligize for the inconvenience, but please bear with me.
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tesadevina on August 26th, 2006
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overenthusiastic!
Do you remember at times, you get dressed-up, spray some perfume, even put some make-up on, you’re just too enthusiastic to go to a get together, a reception, a meeting, BUT!… it turns out everyone else is not?! Hmmm and then you just think to yourself: WHY in the world did I have to prepare so much for it? Well, after all, I think we do inherit some kind of ‘overenthusiastic’ instinct.
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tesadevina on August 25th, 2006
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HALF TON MAN - The Discovery Health Channel
Watching this show, my stomach contracted and felt ashamed. As my hands patted my tummy to make it feel better… Gosh, I felt a roll forming around my waist. Is it really true though, that this gene is the real controller of our weight? Or is it that underpressure, panicked, stressed, and read-eat-read-eat-read-eat habit? 
1 book = 1 bag of oily potato chips (unconsciously!)
Nooo! C’mon dolphina! Get up! Swim! Run! Play batminton! Start the crunches! Walk to campus!
Farewell to Fat!
http://www.annecollins.com/Weight_Loss/leptin-weight-control.htm
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tesadevina on August 24th, 2006
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Hopefully not only economical issues again. Thank God it was more global and will encompass all aspects of global issues. Phiuih… at last not another economy class. Though the lecturer is a Professor of Marketing and Director of International Business Programs at OSU. I think this class will be of utmost interest for me this semester.
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tesadevina on August 23rd, 2006
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INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY (6000 level class)
First, it’s a night class. Starts at 7:30 pm and ends at 10 o’clock at night. Well, dusk prayer is not till 8 pm here. So it doesn’t get dark that quickly in the summer. But imagine! It’ll be dark and freezing cold in the winter when I get home from that class. Berrrrr. I can even feel the chill now! Somehow, I must learn to deal with it. I can do it. Chayo!
Second, ok, so it’s got the word ‘environment’ in it. Hopefully it’s the ‘living’ environment that it’s referring to. GREAT! It is! Finally something of my knowledge. Something I can relate to. Something at least I’ve studied the basics of. I can’t wait for the first discussion. Though, as expected… my peers are all Ph.D. students! They’ve worked for the UN, conserved a forest, wrote journals… things I’ve never imagined I would be able to do in the near future. Well, that just makes me feel kind of small. Though, we’ll see how it goes after I read the tons of books and articles required on the syllabus. See u next week!
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tesadevina on August 22nd, 2006
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GLOBAL COMPETATIVE ENVIRONMENT
Ok, now… don’t get too excited, just because it has the word ‘environment’ doesn’t mean it’s the ‘living environment.’ I came to find out it was also the ‘economical environment.’ ANOTHER ECONOMICS CLASS? Boy… what a week this is starting to be. Ok, take it easy. Turns out, 35 out of 40 students are from Master of Business Administrations! Whoa! I have lots of catching up to do. Wish me luck!