What Influences Our Social Identity? (continued)

A teenager streams music from one continent, wears fashion designed on another, eats food with roots in a third, and chats with friends across the globe, all before breakfast. Globalisation has thrown the world's cultures together as never before, and identity has become something people increasingly assemble rather than simply inherit. This topic asks what that does to who we are.

Here you will meet the key ideas of identity in a global age: cultural defence, where people cling to tradition; hybrid identities, where cultures blend into something new; and homogenisation, the fear that the world is becoming the same everywhere. You will weigh the gains and losses of cultural diversity, multiculturalism and global culture, and explore digital identities and the pick-and-mix way many people now build the self out of what they consume.