With his baggy jeans and full of English-slang t-shirt, he can teach you the best moves of free-style dance, but he finds it impossible to dance Bar'a. He can speak Balushi and Swahili, while he barely speaks and writes formal Arabic. All he thinks of is where and with whom to hang out. Is he really Ahmed Ibin Majid's, the famous Omani sailor's, grandson? Cultures, "or the ways of life," including "manners, dress, language, rituals, norms of behaviour such as law and morality, and systems of belief,"(3) of different nations are claimed to be blended into one global culture described as a melting pot. This term, which was first used for the United States, is "a metaphor for the way in which homogenous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures, races and religions) are combined so as to develop a multi-ethnic society."(5) We can say that globalization has played the major role and has led to this theory.
According to the Wikipedia website globalization is "a process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology."(4) This process has effects on the environment, culture, political systems, economic development and prosperity, as well as human physical well-being in societies around the world. Yet, is it true that it has changed the people we are?Let us begin by looking at how globalization has changed our appearance. It's worth stating that most countries, nowadays, have given up their traditional dress. A typical man wears a t-shirt and trousers while a woman wears a fashionable dress and most likely a blouse and a skirt. Although our globalized markets provide unlimited designs of clothes, we often have united choices. Jeans, for example, are...