[serf]

it's not hidden that globalization and all that it entails squelches out common local culture facets.

there is a long list of long-dead languages that attests to this. coca-cola is the number one drink globally because of these kind of implications.

>Do you think traveling to Japan would slow its globalization?

I think the implication is that one should experience it now before it inevitably changes to be more homogeneous with the rest of the world.

[kjkjadksj]

Japan already has the four horsemen of globalization though: coca cola, mcdonalds, kfc, and pizza hut. There's a certain point where it stops doing anything however. Go to the pizza hut in Giza with the pyramid view. It's still very much Egypt on the street.

[benopal64]

It seems like some folks in this thread are conflating globalization with ultra-powerful organizations using their capital and influence to spread to the rest of the world. Other countries are simply untapped resources in their eyes. More folks to consume their products & services.

I think the two can be the same, however, that does not mean they are the same.

[kjkjadksj]

If oligarchs in one country spread to another its only because the other country already has power structures for an oligarchy in place. For the people on the ground living under an oligarchy it hardly matters what the nationality is of this oligarchy, they all read the same material.

[yongjik]

> there is a long list of long-dead languages that attests to this.

Look up Ainu and Okinawan languages - Japanese is the dominant language that drove its neighbors' cultures to extinct. It has more native speakers than French, German, or Italian. The Japanese culture is not going anywhere.

Most of the time, those "globalization is ruining beautiful Japanese culture" arguments sound like a mixture of orientalism and xenophobic dog-whistle, i.e., "Isn't it nice that there's a country where only its one native ethnic group is considered the true members and all else are at best second-class citizens?"