According to Phillipe Legrain, cultural globalization is not Americanization, he comments that, "It is a myth that globalization involves the imposition of Americanized uniformity, rather than an explosion of cultural exchange." Globalization is a good thing, but is feared by many because it is a common misconception of Americanization. Globalization is, in the simplest of terms, cross-fertilization, or the exchanging of ideas and products. Globalization in fact increases individual freedom. It allows oneself to choose ones cultural experiences, and to therefore define oneself by ones adap…
