{"id":12753,"date":"2020-03-03T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:36:42","slug":"globalization-behaviour-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/03\/03\/globalization-behaviour-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalization & Behaviour Part Three<\/br>Immigration and Terrorism<\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like a simple question – how does globalization influence behaviour? But the explanation is actually quite tricky since globalization itself is a rather abstract concept. Because of this, we need to find concrete examples. In the first two posts in this series we focused on changes in cultural dimensions and television through Westernization (see links below).\u00a0 This final post in this series looks at another example of how globalization occurs: immigration. The behaviour it might affect? Well, there’s lots. This includes mental health (e.g. significance loss), extremism and possibly even terrorism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With globalization comes an increase in immigration, as can be seen in this graph (source: Forbes via USA Census).<\/p><\/div>\n

Globalization is \u201ca process by which cultures influence one another and become more alike through trade, immigration, and the exchange of information and ideas,” (Arnett, 2002). So globalization does not only refer to the spread of ideas, like individualism, but also the physical spread of actual individuals through immigration.<\/p>\n

The rise in globalization has also coincided with a rise in global terrorism (Lutz and Lutz, 2015). Are these things related? Let’s investigate.<\/p>\n

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