Modern thinking and conservation of tradition should be allocated their respective fields, hence the two can be integrated within the life of a person, a community or a nation. The rest of the world tends to be seen as a potential market and source of raw materials. The instruments for the protection of their gains from exploration, exploitation, data organization and innovation have been designed and promoted intensively. Some protection and legalization schemes regarding cultural rights favor the industrialists, with the effect that the original traditional owners lose out. Cases in point include the legal registration of traditional designs by Westerners.
Industrialization implies the creation of new needs among consumers.
Many new innovations widen a person's experience, or ease life's hassles. Meanwhile, products of cultural industry are most influential since they may transform, or even alter, a person's taste, preferences and thinking. In the beginning, it was the book that constituted the most important product of cultural industry, in its capacity to broaden people's mind. Next came the technology of sound recording, and, thence, the business of music records. This began with the contents of European culture and its offshoots in America.