Nowadays, the world seems small without border due to the rapidly advancing mass

communication and social network. In view of the fact that, these leading technology can
link people from different countries, age groups, religions and cultures in an “open sky”
with just a touch on the media screen.

Therefore, some of us worry that globalization will inevitably lead to the total loss
of cultural identity especially for Malaysia, a beautiful country with unified culture. As
Malaysian, I am strongly agree with it. From my point of view, the Western culture
gradually integrated into our life especially the young generation by just take a glimpse of
their fashion sense, eating habit, communication and social behaviour.

One of which was mass communication and social network had taken over
traditional game. Youths nowadays would rather have their time occupied with PS4,
Facebook and Internet games than traditional games such as Tingting, Batu Seremban,
wau, Sepak Takraw, gasing and congkak. I wonder how many of them actually know about
the essence of traditional games. Soon enough, culture identity will be vanish in our hand
when new era arrives.

Besides, I do realize that most of us prefer to communicate in English rather than

our national language “Bahasa Malaysia”. Frankly to say, there are young urban Malays
who are more fluent in the English language than Bahasa Malaysia and young urban
Chinese who do not even know or want to speak their own dialect but fluent in English and
wiling to learn other country’s language other than theirs.

Furthermore, the influence of the globalization can be observed from youngsters’

way of expression through their fashion styles and social behaviour. The publicity through
mass communication and social network has created a strong impact to new generation
especially teenagers. They admire their idol so much and unconsciously become the
gatekeepers to “modern trends”. In these days, users can easily approached to various
movies, songs, documentaries, news and advertisements by subscribing to entertainment
media. For example, Despacito the global hit song with the features of Canadian pop star
Justin Bieber had been denouncing having sexually explicit lyrics was popular among the
teenagers. Malaysia had banned “Despacito” on state radio and television, though it might
be hard to slow the song’s record-breaking popularity (The Associated Press, 2017).

Other than mass media, users able to access network by internet surfing but in risk
of unfiltered sources and crimes such as pornography, illegal internet gambling and cyber-
bullying. Research showed that one out of four children in Malaysia have experienced
cyberbullying. Malaysia was ranked 17th highest in cyberbullying, while Singapore had
the second highest rate of cyberbullying, after China (Natasha, 2017). The influences of
technology itself aid by the attitude of ourselves will slowly but surely corrupting our
culture.

However, there is no doubt that globalization has affected nearly every aspect of
modern life which includes provides benefiting economic growth, upgrading market
efficiency, increasing education level and chances and expanding technology. But, we
cannot under look the disadvantages along with it. As Malaysians, we have responsibility
to protect our culture identity and create awareness to communities. As to conclude, let our
culture lead globalization but not the opposite.

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