Literature in a globalized world

Nowadays nobody can deny that we already live in a globalized world and this fact has important consequences in all of life’s matters. Music, art, language, briefly the culture of a group of people is also influenced by this movement; needless to say literature is not an exception. “The Arts world” has an enormous power in order to connect different people, cultures, ideologies, political and social movements. However, living in a globalized world has a lot of disadvantages, too. The most common one is the imposition of one idea over the others, threatening them of disappearance. We neither can forget the interests of capitalism and the importance to spread a certain set of ideals.
Thanks to a global world, an explosion of different tendencies and points of view emerge, although it is said that there is an underlying aim to move people to the “correct” side, with press’ help, or manipulation, of course. Literature could be a wonderful skill of knowledge but also a skill of manipulation of ideologies. Fortunately, there are people who are critical in front of what they are reading, and that they are difficult to manipulate because they have their own ideas of life.
Fortunately, literature also allows us to imagine millions of different possible worlds, it allows to make us speculate and imagine. It makes us think of other philosophies, fantastic stories, of other cultures, everything that we want. And the most important, it could have an important repercussion in people’s behaviour around the world; although changing things for good or bad depend on us, not on literature.