Culture is another area of complex controversies with globalization. Competing perspectives about how globalization affects cultures revolve around the debates of cultural homogenization versus cultural diversification. The optimistic view of cultural globalization is that cultural diversity focuses on freer cultural exchanges with broader choices and enrichment of learning from different traditions. People have greater choices of globally produced goods, in addition to local offerings, without being bound by their geographical location.
Furthermore, not only is cultural diversity diminished but cultural quality is as well with mass produced goods being directed toward a common denominator. The criticisms are related to a sense of “Americanization” of the world, rather than globalization. The process involves a sense of far-reaching, anonymous cultural imperialism. Debates from each perspective are intense with substantial evidence that also reveals complex ties to social and political dynamics within and between national borders.
Cultural globalization continues into the foreseeable future with many more controversial dynamics related to three important issues: 1) the impact of extractive industries on the socio-economic, cultural exclusion and dislocation of indigenous peoples and their traditional knowledge; 2) international trading of cultural goods and knowledge; and 3) inflow of immigration impacts on national culture, which creates a tension between a sense of threat to the national culture and migrant demands for respect to their traditions in a multicultural society.
文化全球化是另一个地区复杂的争议。相互竞争的观点，关于全球化如何影响文化围绕文化同质化与文化多元化的辩论。文化全球化的乐观的看法是，文化多样性是自由的文化交流与更广泛的选择和不同的传统学习充实。人有更大的选择全球生产的商品，除了当地的产品，不受地理位置约束。
此外，不仅是文化多样性的减少，但文化素质是大批量生产的产品被指向一个共同的分母为好。批评是一种意义上的“美国化”的世界，而不是全球化。该过程涉及一个意义深远的，匿名的文化帝国主义。从每个角度的争论激烈，大量的证据，也揭示了社会和政治动态的内部和国家之间的边界复杂的关系。
文化全球化继续在可预见的将来更多的有争议的动力学相关的三个重要问题：1）采掘业对社会经济的影响，文化排斥与土著人民和他们的传统知识的错位；2）对文化商品和文化知识的国际贸易；和3）移民对民族文化影响的流入，造成一种威胁感之间的紧张关系，民族文化和移民在一个多元文化的社会，尊重他们的传统要求。
