Today local cultures are less determinative in influencing behaviour. The result is high tension. We do not want to give up our local culture, but it gets overwhelmed. Assumptions about Globalisation 1. Globalisation is good because it brings people together - this is true but globalisation also minimises otherness which increases tension between groups of people.
People have to fight harder to define themselves in different way.
When boundaries are uncertain the result is unpredictable behaviour. Globalisation puts us in touch with people around the world - youth who travel are more optimistic about globalisation than those who don't. But globalisation also increases anonymity. When people go online they use pseudonyms. Decision are made in one place and acted out in another.