The "Cultural Colonization" Under Globalization And The Response Of School Moral Education

Today, globalization has become an irresistible trend of history. There are unprecedented expansion of International relations, cross-border, cross-regional contacts become more frequent, different cultures and thought intersect, stirring, and assimilation, economic and culture get more diversification in every country. Globalization can disseminate advanced concept and excellent technology culture, however, corrosive and destructive cultural factors also penetrate into social life with it subsequently, which causes chaos to people's ideas and values. Some western developed countries took advantage of globalization pushing cultural colonization; they attempted to control other countries from consciousness through dumping their cultural products and values to weak states. Cultural colonization comes with globalization impacts on people, especially teenagers mind by its unique way: from basic necessities of life to interpersonal communication, from lifestyle to language expression, From technology and system to values and aesthetic standards, people's act and mind all presenting westernized trend. People lost the necessary consciousness to ask and think, lost the critical ability. A series of problems impact on the leading values and bring great serious challenges to school moral education.Therefore, this paper mainly studies on the influence which cultural colonization has already brought and will bring to teenagers thought and behavior in the context of globalization from the perspective of cultural science, facing the cultural problems of school moral education, presents the cultural standpoint and principles of school moral education from theory and practices aspects, explores the cultural construction road of school moral education should hold, cultivates talents who possess cultural awareness and sense of innovation.This thesis includes three parts. The first part is a general discussion to the cultural colonial phenomenon in the context of globalization. It begins with the definition and interpretation of cultural colonization under the background of globalization, and then reveals the purpose,content,target and method about cultural colonialism, analyses the characteristics of concealment,non-obligatory,reproduction, and get an overall control. The second part discusses the impact and challenge that cultural colonization brings to school moral education. It includes the influence in values and behavior on teenagers and perplexity of school moral education. Such as values westernized, national culture identity weakening and belief crisis, and then love western films, festival, food and clothes, language in behavior. So what cultural standpoint and educational measures should to take? These confusion on theory and practice are school moral education must be face.In the third part, considering the influence of cultural colonization on teenagers and school moral education, the author proposes some suggestions. First of all, schools should put right attitude towards cultural colonization, alert western hegemony, strengthen national culture consciousness and clear the cultural standpoint which just is harmonious but different. The second, school moral education should follow these principles about directivity and diversity unified, nationality and openness mutual promoted, criticism and innovative combined. At last, it refers the specific measures; school moral education should strengthen their own cultural construction, foster their own cultural characteristics and build their own cultural value system.