The ongoing process of globalization is increasingly bringing the world closer and closer together economically, politically and socially. Globalization has increased global consciousness and has made the world as a single place. In order for the process of globalization to reach a certain nation, their society has to become open to foreign influences and learn to assimilate these influences with their traditional society. For some traditional societies, this concept has been difficult to grasp.
Most fundamentalist societies see globalization as the deterioration of their traditional culture.
They fail to understand how economic ties can increase wealth within their nation and withhold their traditional values as well. The globalization process can benefit nations all over the world, however certain nations need to become more open-minded. The inability to globalize has been a huge conflict in Islamic fundamentalist countries such as Iran. In Iran, the radical rejection of western intervention by fundamentalists has caused numerous uprisings and has severely complicated the modernization process. Islamic fundamentalists see the term globalization as a cover-up for its so called underlying term, westernization.