THE GLOBAL VILLAGE AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Cultural imperialism is the  the idea that one culture can either influence or dominate another in much the same way as nations have invaded and controlled other nations. It is closely related to global communicated which can defined as the communication across borders, social, political and cultural divides. On the other hand, global village is a phrase coined by Marshal McLuhan to describe the world that has been shrunk by modern advances in communications. McLuhan likened the vast network of communication systems to one extended central nervous system. It could also be define as the extension of influence or dominance of one nation's culture over others.

Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting a more powerful culture over a least known or desirable culture. In clear context, cultural imperialism and the global village concept have more or less a common goal, this can be to unite and and make the world everyone's. The theory of cultural imperialism was developed in the 1970's by Herbert Schiller to explain the media situation as existed at that time. It can have both positive and negative effects on global communication. It can promote generally positive agendas like equal rights and improve lives of many people. Moreover, it can also prove detrimental to 'ínferior''cultures and cultural values when a dominant culture takes over. Furthermore, it can be argued that  cultural imperialism is prevalent in today's media climate, where core countries own the majority of global media and export their cultural values. Nonetheless, it has also recieved criticism for not considering the agency and free will of the target audience and ignoring the idea of cultural resistance.

The global village is one world connected by an electronic nervous system. It was predicted by Marshal McLuhan, making it part of our popular culture before it actually happened. It can also be defined as the idea of an increasingly unified world where effects of globalisation allows us to overcome the limitations of physical distance. We are now connected by many convenient modes of travel, global media, advanced technologies and seamless information transfer and so did we become a sort of single global community all because of the global village concept. In addition, adverse effects of flactuations in agricultural productions in one area can be reduced by pooling production from other areas, peace/understanding, goodwill and cultural allignment is facilitated among countries that were once vastly, different and at war. Companies have access to much wider and larger muktinational markets and are consequently able to procure the necessary input materials and services at more competitive prices, to due global supply. "The world is getting smaller, moere available and familiar to our minds and emotions, it is now a global village" is a quote from Marshal McLuhan's video on youtube in the 1970's.

  FAIRNESS, AS A JOURNALISTIC CODE OF CONDUCT

Fairness means exploring all sides of an issue, reporting and finding accuracy in journalism. It means that a journalist should strive for accuracy and truth in reporting and not slant a story so that a reader draws a reporter's desired conclusion. Some critics argue that journalists never succeed in being completely balanced and fair in telling all sides of a story.

What are leaders and agenda setters without transparency is the question. From a calculated perception, fairness is the important part of the journalistic code of conduct in Namibia. It comes with transparency, objectivity, accountability, independence and integrity. Fairness means that when covering hard news, reporters dont convey their own feelings, biases or prejudices in their stories. That's objective fairness. A reporter is not only objective and fair but also conveys an image of being objective and fair. Without fairness, journalists won't be able to find and write or report on a accurate stories without no harm.

Fairness and objectivity is a discipline to test bias against evidence. It attracts public recognition and acknowledgement from society and mass media. Journalists who select sources to express what is really their own point of view, and than use the neutral voice to make it seem fair, are engaged in a form of deception. This damages the credibility if the craft by making it seem unprincipled, dishonest and biased. Impartial reporting, I think and fairness are integral for the future because abandoning fairness makes people passive recipients of news rather than aggressive analysts, and that is not fair at all as they are the audience for which news or stories are being produced. Fairness and objectivity also protects journalists from consequences and loss of credibility because it is important to come as close to the truth as possible to avoid bad accountable actions.

Fairness is the medium to success in journalism. It has no harm and gains trust of the audience.  Would media institutions have gone this far making profit? Would they have had constant consumers of their stories. At last but not least, how immensely would legal issues arise in the company and what would happen to the company's reputation?

                   CELEBRITY CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Celebrity culture is a high-volume perpetuation of celebritues' personal lives on a global scale. It refers to the culture of popularizing certain people who have certain attributes that society deem emotional. Have some of us been tryin to comprehend the how celebrity culture impacts our society? Has it come to our minds to get to know this celebrity culture concept? Well, we are going to talk about how/if it helps or hurt the society.

As we can see that today, news about celebrities are fully appearing on all kinds of communication media, the television and online media such as the internet. From an honst and more accurate perception, we are living in a world of media innovation together with the development of celebrity culture. Celebrity culture is shaped by new technologies that makes the mechanical reproduction of images and the extreme dessemination of information/news through media such as radio, cinema television and the internet easily. It is a symbiotic relationship from which performers obtain wealth, honours and social powers in exchange for selling a sense of intimacy to audiences. As for fans, it produce intense identification at music concerts, athletic arenas, and other displays of fantasy objects, weather live or recordedand mechanically produced. Celebrities parade in public media events as they recieve honours and awards such as the Oscars for movie stars in America. This identifications can lead to the role reversals where fans can covet the wealth, honours and suppose powersof the celebrities.

However, this culture brings us the news of impossible amounts of fun, and the entertainment comes at any cost. Interestingly, celebrities seem to affect our lives quite intensely and unknowingly. We may in addition say that celebrity news has become the only fodder for intellectual and stunting conversations limiting our imagination, imagine. People dont only love the miseries of our beloved celebrities, but are also affected by their portrayal of sexualized behaviours, the gullible prey has become the young generation in a hurry to grow up. Furthermore to this,  celebrities get pregnant, they can be drug and alcohol abusers but we still would be entertained by them and still love them at the same time and still be role models for teenagers growing up in this celebrity culture-filled society. The constant bombardment of celebrity lifes has made most of the people relateto them (celebrities) more than they relate to their friends or neighbours. Celebrity culture and their lives can set a false example too. In the past olden days, if some children were asked about their dream it would be to become a pilot, lawyer or doctor. However, today, most of the answers would be ''to be famous''. Celebrity content is being held by the new media that has leading new ways of introducing, producing and consuming celebrity online magazines and news which also has which also has an expansive effect on society. Young adults become too obssesed, ending up being celebrities without actually achieving anything. Celebrities will do anything sensible as businesspeople to get back on their two feet when their careers are drowning, this is an encouragement of confidence and consistency. 

Celebrity culture divides opinions amongst youngsters and adults. It is a subject that has to be introduced in school syllabuses to educate our future leaders on this celebrity culture content. In conclusion, I would say that celebrity culture hurt the society seventy percent more than it helps because of nothing else but not having the knowledge and understanding of it. It is something that people should sit back and watch what celebrities do and not try to copy what they do. Talking of talented young people, they should come up with their own unique ideas on how they want to live as celebrities, their own content, their swag, what example to set and foremostly have specialized mentors on this ''celebrity culture''.

NAMIBIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS ALIVENESS ENTITY

Back then before the Namibian independence, namibian women and girls have been dying immensely by manslaughter. In this case let us reckon about the cassinga massacre in the ongulumbashe where it all started, the Windhoek massacre at the old location in Windhoek which is now called the hochland park where an elderly woman, Kakurukaze Mungunda was shot and died on the spot. Let us reckon the Herero-Nama genocide where the namibian women were raped and slaughtered by the German troop soldiers. It is becoming worse and worse each and every single day in Namibia.

In nawa years,policemen, whose job is to promote and maintain peace have an increasing record of killing their girlfriends(women). Small girls are being raped and murdered. Let's go in recent years and think of Magdalena Stoffels, the seventeen year old schoolgirl whose body was found raped and murdered in a riverbed, thirteen year old Elizabeth Claudia Guim whose lifeless body was found in a riverbed in Tsumeb, Schoolgirl Rina !Nau/gawases who was raped and murdered in the Goreagab informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek. We talking about women and girls, man's helpers, wifes and kids' mothers. The reputation of the country is dropping beneath recognition and somebody has to do something about it before peace and security fades away without no footprints behind.

I have been conversating this matter with people around the Havanna vicinity in Windhoek. Lee, a 21 year old at Namibia University of Science and Technology was suggesting that soldiers should be released from the camps and start  doing some duties on the streets instead of getting paid for for eating and sleeping, they are relaxed while the country is suffering, he added. Another was Erica, a woman in her midfourties, a cleaner at Havanna Primary school opinionated the high court law to be implemented for killing women and girls. She explained that the high court was a law in the olden days where the killer was slaughtered as well. I one evening met with a 53 year old Goreagab resident, Immanuel, a born again christian on my way to town what crucial opinion he had about the harm that namibian men are busy building. He answered briefly saying that the man of this country should start by marrying their girlfriends, he further explained that when they marry, rape cases will greatly reduce and that the cause of women murder is jealousy. He still went on telling me about another 51 year old man man that was arrested on Sunday at Usakos on a charge of murdering his ex-girlfriend in Karibib on Saturday night.

The case that has touched the hearts of the Innocent namibian people, that has let to the grieving in pain to see what Namibia, their country has become is of Cheryl Avihe Ujaha, a grade three learner at Gammams Primary School whose body was found was most recently dumped at the school's nearby bushes battered and seemed to have been partially boiled just after her three days disappearance. It is in addition alleged that she was raped. How traumatizing can that news be to a mother.

However, the namibian city police is still investigating the crime and no suspect is yet apprehended. Namibians got touched, their hearts are wounded this time. They feel like a plan should be executed for the security and freedom of the namibian women and girls. She keeps you in the womb for nine months, she raises you with or without your father, she feeds you and loves you unconditionally. Where is the gratitude dear heartless men?

# PLAN FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

        THE KATUTURA KINGPIN                        GANGSTER FALLS

Yoh! Relieve has come to the city of Windhoek. After discovering that the kingpin of more than five gangstar groups has been shot to death by a police officer, said some residents of katutura location. After allegedly robbing some tourists in Klein We Windhoek, it is thought that ease has come to rain in Katutura.

The late gangster known as Kablou was notoriously known for cellphone robberies, money grabbing activities as well as several other robberies. He was the mastermind whereby, gang members were in charge of executing  the plans according to his instructions.  He had been in prison for more than ten times and it is alleged that he had connections with some police officers, well, maybe that's why he was a free man committing more and more crimes. People in the community knew him as a notorious criminal and yet this hasn't been outspread, intact, these was the first for most of the windhoekers, especially the ones not from katutura location.

But, is the death of Kablou a problem solved by a solution, or a problem solved by a problem? Let us reckon the CRIME RIDDLED STREETS OF CHICAGO caused by Larry Hoover, the american gangster leader and founder of the Chicago street gang called the "Gangster Disciples. After Barksdale died from kidney failure due to earlier shootings, Hoover took the reins of the Gangster Disciples Nation while apprehended in the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence Colorado. He helped form the Folks Nation which added more than eight more gangs that had almost 30 000 soldiers/members, thereafter, the streets were the worst, people lived in panic and fear.It was holistically bad, they made an amount of about US$3,300 per soldier annually through crime and drug trafficking in the 1970's.

These holistic matter of Kablou, the kingpin has started and not all are happy, nor all feel bad. Gang members are tremendously angry, euphoria is a thread to the windhoek residents. What is the City Police's plan of execution going to be? The big deal is to protect our people and peace is what all of us want. Yes, a mother's tears has rolled down chicks, a son has lost a father it is a pity that it has come to these.

However, every good and bad thing has a lesson in store for all of us on earth. The fact remains that police are there to reduce crime in Namibia and we still want to fight corruption. Additionally, the foremost question still stands that how was the shooting executed and why it happened. At last but not least, every Namibian should learn and watch what happens what still is going to happen.

#CRIME,CORRUPTION AND  THE STREETS

                       Our special talents

We all come from different backgrounds, different areas and families where things are done differently from what is done where we are.When we reach the age of approximately thirteen,we get exposed to certain things that makes our lifes either bad or better,to things that changes our lifestyles positively or negatively.

We all have that one special talent that one can embrace to make a good living,to be an inspiration to fellow mates and young ones as well as our adults.It always starts small.It is almost like a game of the survival of the fittest,so protect it, keep it do not let go off it and always remember to do it with all your heart with focus.

Do not ignore what you know that you good at,you may fail several times but don't forget to stand up because you are able.Negative people will talk negative things now,they are the ones that'll praise you in the end.Words don't hurt,nor do they kill,they make you more stronger and tougher.

What is your talent?might be it singing,hockey,dancing or rugby, you are entitled to be a star so do it chase shyness out,and let courage be be your priority and be the Sharapova,be the Christiano,the Michael Jackson and yass, continue doing what you are good at.

#Sayyestoyourgift