Globalization is simply connecting many different ideas and various things from all over the world through cultures, genre, people, and even technology.
Hybridization is easily relatable to globalization. Hybrid is typically known as mixing or crossing 2 products and creating one, so in this case of making it media linked, hybridization is connecting two different ideas and displaying or presenting them together.
An example I can think of is the show ‘Ugly Betty’. It originally began as a Colombian soap opera or telenovela titled ‘Yo soy Betty, la fea’ and ran in the US for 4 seasons. ‘Ugly Betty’ follows Betty Suarez, America Ferrera, in her daily life encounters. We get to meet Betty’s family and then we see her professional life at MODE magazine. This show crosses a strong Latino family and puts Betty into this professional and predominately Caucasian atmosphere. This was a twist of bringing a Spanish show to America and having the character in two different environments.
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