Culture is a huge part of any country, how the
culture has grown through globalisation and or other means helps to define a
country. You can see how countries culture's differ through looking at film,
food or media.
Middle eastern culture: hard to define consistently
through all countries in the middle east. But these countries are drawn
together through a 'belief in islam, use of the Arabic language, connections
through Arab league and historical ties' [Berich, 2012]. El Naway describes to
us that the Arabic populations main priority is to save up enough money to
purchase a satellite disc so as to watch figure head Al-Jazzera, although the
news and information they are recevinging via this disc is noted to be
extremely unreliable- they are still obsessed with the idea of following his
news. Some households even put purchasing a satellite disc above daily needs.
They are obsessed with 78.2% of the population tuning in. [El-Naway, M. 2003].
Much different to that of a developed and westernised country such as
Australia.
Australia culture is according to wikipedia
'essentially a western culture influenced by the unique geography of the
Australia continent'. Australia's culture has been heavily influenced by
globalisation, we have a wider access to information and news than ever more.
Within the Australia culture there is an ever increasing amount of 'digital
journalism' which countries in the middle east don't have access too. The idea
of digital journalism and the idea that the newspapers are slowly dying out in
a australia is reflected through looking how Australia's culture has changed
over the years.
References:
Berich 2012, 'We reach all corners of the
Globe', LLC, http://www.berichllc.com/html/middle_eastern_culture.html,
Pg 1,
El-Nawawy, M. 2003, ‘The battle for
the Arab mind’, Al-Jazeera, the story of the network that is rattling
governments and redefining modern journalism 2003, Westview Press,
Boulder CO, pp. 45-69, 217-218
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Australia
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