Globalization is the concept of an interweaving network of culture and communication amongst people globally. Globalization has become increasingly more prominent as technology improves. Because of the Internet, what was once culturally exclusive is now available at the click of a mouse. In high school, the French teen dance craze Techtonik became the newest youtube sensation right before prom, my freshman year in college I was told about a cool, Swedish vampire movie that translated to “Let the Right One In”. In these cases, these cultural works stood out as great and because of globalization I had a chance to experience them, however, with globalization (and capitalism) comes glocalization. This is the taking of an idea or formula that proved successful in one place and adopting it in another. Only a year after watching the Swedish film “Let the Right One In”, I saw a trailer for a Hollywood movie “Let Me In”, the exact remake of the Swedish original but with an American cast for an American audience. At virtually the same time “Dinner for Schmucks” was coming to theaters. I saw this preview and immediately knew it to be an American remake of the French classic “Le Dîner de Cons”.
Globalization is the concept of an interweaving network of culture and communication amongst people globally. Globalization has become increasingly more prominent as technology improves. Because of the Internet, what was once culturally exclusive is now available at the click of a mouse. In high school, the French teen dance craze Techtonik became the newest youtube sensation right before prom, my freshman year in college I was told about a cool, Swedish vampire movie that translated to “Let the Right One In”. In these cases, these cultural works stood out as great and because of globalization I had a chance to experience them, however, with globalization (and capitalism) comes glocalization. This is the taking of an idea or formula that proved successful in one place and adopting it in another. Only a year after watching the Swedish film “Let the Right One In”, I saw a trailer for a Hollywood movie “Let Me In”, the exact remake of the Swedish original but with an American cast for an American audience. At virtually the same time “Dinner for Schmucks” was coming to theaters. I saw this preview and immediately knew it to be an American remake of the French classic “Le Dîner de Cons”. 
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