The document discusses several topics related to globalization and its impact on local cultures: 1. It discusses the concept of cultural capital and how non-financial assets can promote social mobility. 2. It examines diaspora communities and how technology has helped connect geographically scattered groups while also eroding national boundaries. 3. Several examples are given of how increased contact with outside groups and adoption of technology has impacted local tribes and societies, such as the Kayapo people in Brazil and the Ainu people in Japan. Both experienced changes to traditional ways of life.

1. Globalisation
Without looking at your notes write
down all the names and theorists
from Monday’s lesson

2. Cultural Capital
refers to non-financial social assets that promote
social mobility beyond economic means. Examples can
include education, intellect, style of speech, dress, and
even physical appearance, et cetera

3. The Internet
• Diaspora: a geographically scattered group of
people with a shared cultural identity.
• Miller and Slater – the Trini’s
• Facebook and Academia- the problems of this.
• Ulf Hannerz- transnational communications-
eroding national and regional boundaries.
• Global Village’ (McLuhan, 1964).

4. The names of these chat rooms – de Rumshop Lime, de Trini Lime – evoke central aspects of
Trinidadian culture. The ‘lime’ especially evokes the street corner, where males traditionally
exchanged innuendo and banter with passing females and aimed to hear about whatever was
happening … The rumshop is a local, down-market drinking place, in the old days dominated
by dominoes and rum, today often filled with ear-splitting music and Carib beer, another
favourite place to lime… The term ‘lime’ is regarded as quintessentially Trini – both peculiar to
the place and definitive of its people – and was regularly cited as the Trini pleasure they most
wanted to recover on or through the internet. In fact, ‘liming’ was the word generally used to
describe chatting online and other non-serious uses of the internet, as it would describe any
similar hanging out. The internet comes to be seen simply as liming extended to just another
social space…
… Trinis pride themselves on verbal dexterity … but here shared by women who are just as
proficient at the ambiguous innuendo or the withering put-down. A second vital trait is the
ability not to ‘take things on’. This depends on a sense of ‘cool’ that means that traded insults
are kept on the surface for batting to and fro like ping-pong balls, and there is a pride in the
fact that they therefore do not hurt, cause resentment or penetrate into the wider being of
those taking part. Trinis see this ability as differentiaiting them from other regions whose
people would be seen as hot-tempered and unable to cope with such insults, especially in the
area of sexuality, which is their richest field of production ... The third trait is the basic shared
nationalism that means they can together praise but perhaps more often disparage
Trinidadians (politicians, institutions, websites, etc.), but with an underlying affinity to Trinidad
that would make the same negative comment by an outsider seem highly offensive.
(Miller and Slater, 2000, pp.88–90)

5. 1. Is the Trini study for or against Appadurai’s
theory of multi-directional flows? Explain
your answer.
2. What impact has technology had on:
- Diaspora
- national boundaries.

6. The Local
• Detrimental or not?
• The Kayapo- how has technology and contact
with Brazialian state agencies changed their
society? ( Terrence Turner) p.164.
• Dam building projects- The Ainu (Japan)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBYtYAOsJc]
• http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream
/handle/10125/21976/v1i1_02okada.pdf?sequen
ce=1

7. • Survival
• Marcus Colchester – a full time Anthropologist
who works with tribes who face
environmental conflict.

8. ‘Globalisation has been detrimental to tribes
across the world’ Discuss.