Homogenization

• Homogenization occurs when a culture that is special on its own merits blends with elements of other cultures. This causes slight or major changes to the culture, depending on the type of elements and on how people adopt them. Examples of these factors include imported food, movies, television and fashion. Foreign locations' implementation of United States products or traditions is called "westernization" of a culture.
  
  

Cultural Identity

• Globalization removes -- or at least chips away at -- an area's cultural identity, as it takes the focus off a country's local issues or products. People who once connected with their home country's cultural identity look instead to ideas and styles of other countries. As this process continues, a society loses the characteristics that define it to outsiders. Cultural groups have new definitions to establish their entire identity. Traditions that span generations often undergo a reduction or are discontinued, as those who care about continuing the tradition die, leaving generations with other cultural connections.
  
  

Religion

• The number of religions decreases as other cultures integrate. Certain integrations will spur the loss of one religion's viewpoints and ideas. In some cases, religions may combine because of their similar ideologies; this could cause conflicts between differing ideas, and may lead to violence. Additionally, some areas may see the introduction of ideas about societies entirely without religion.
  
  

Economics

• With a region's financial change comes a desire of its citizens to create a better life. As these changes occur, ideas shift to focus on material goods and prosperity. For example, adults learn secondary languages to adapt to the countries or societies that their culture mostly does business with. Students also begin to learn other areas' languages in preparation for an increasingly connected future among the continents.