Diaspora

Diaspora of cultures spread across many countries can be directly attributed to globalisation through the processes of tourism, migration and movement. The motives too for shifting location can also be attributed to globalisation as these include travel, seeking a new life, or even fleeing to a country of opportunity to escape one originally devastated by poverty, war or depression.

The difference between a home and host country can be few and far between as national boundaries denote different traditions. As cultural dislocation notes, often people can feel misplaced when settling into their new homeland as they are unaware of foreign civilisations and their adopted behaviours having never experiences them before. Furthermore, they may feel intimated by these traditions and inclined to adopt them despite fearing having to lose their own cultural heritage as a result.  

On the contrary, the widespread nature of diasporic cultures can also influence other cultures in a positive manner. In some cases we only have to look as far as the person either side of us in the classroom to realise that people from different nationalities are constantly gathered together to celebrate something interconnected and universal. Globalisation doesn’t necessarily weaken ties of ethnicity, but can be seen to strengthen them as it constantly brings different people together.