摘要：Globalization means a process of transnational and cross-boundary flow of cultures, on which there are two oppositeperspectives; the perspectives that I would term, for the sake of clarification, a free-flow model and an assimilation model.The free-flow model in its extreme form regards culture as something neutral and autonomous flowing freely acrossboundaries and allowing people to have increasingly greater access to extensive cultural resources, ultimatelytransforming the world into an idealized “global community.” The assimilation model on the other hand is more sensitiveto the power relations between the nation states and peoples involved in this flow and emphasizes the elements ofenforcement when culture crosses boundaries. In the latter view, the rhetoric surrounding the world as a community can atbest be regarded as a deception serving only those on the more powerful side.
