How globalization has affected different cultural aspects and what they have done to preserve their identity.

“Clash of civilizations”

Egyptian society in recent years has been strongly influenced by the globalizacón, in this way the common people  cares  about  fulfilling material needs and whims. More over, the ruling class is only interested in lining their pockets and bank accounts. 

Egypt is exemplary for a country that has experienced fundamental economic and political changes in the last decades. These changes were not only triggered by the Arab Spring, but also by the process of liberalization which began in the 1970s. This involves opening the national market to products from all over the world, and also the privatization of all various sectors, including the banking and health sector.

In Volker Perthes’ words: The Egyptian society has become a society of two speeds. One part of the society lives with structures that were developed in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and have worsened. The other part moves in a globalized world economy that lives with the acquisitions of the 21st century (Perthes 2004 : 181).

Culturally the Arab world feels threatened by globalization due to the imposition of customs handed down through "marks" leading  to an  uniform way of seeing the world, we are all Mc Donalds, Nike, etc. 


References
http://blog.goethe.de/humanities/archives/40-Globalization-and-Society-in-Egypt.html
http://www.libreriamundoarabe.com/Boletines/n%BA82%20May.10/ArabesIslamGlobalizacion1.htm