A Survey on Globalization and its Cultural Impacts

At the beginning of 3rd millennium, the multi-dimensional globalization process, as the most important factor in the evolution of different aspects of human existence, is brought on the integration process in time and space and creation of a unified global society. This phenomenon, apart from historic theoretical roots, has expanded mainly as a result of rationalism, capitalism, international organizations, and the recent expansion of information technology and new communication tools available to the world citizens. Utilizing an analytical-descriptive method, in this article the role of cultural evolution as a symbolic and emotional phenomenon which can be used in modern mass media is investigated. We believe cultural development has been used as the biggest means to deepen and escalate the globalization process and bring together humans from all over the world. The impacts of globalization were first addressed by Friedrich Hegel in his famous dialectic theory which considers unified world culture and diverse world cultures as thesis and anti-thesis that propel the future cultural evolution of the world through clashes and conflicts.