Abstract

Global modernity is a process by which the experience of virtual space and existence, marked by the diffusion of commodities, ideas and values, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to the process of global modernity include increasingly sophisticated communications and technologies, a new sociocultural code, mass migration and the movement of peoples, the level of economic activity that has outgrown national markets due to industrial combinations that cross national frontiers.Global modernity offers huge potential profits to nations, but it has been complicated by widely differing expectations, competing ideologies, standards of living cultures and values, legal systems as well as unex-pected global cause.Different metacultures, as a set of beliefs and symbols promoted and promulgated by human agency, are as an operating system of global modernity. Its principal agents are interactive in the global arena, and they compete for virtual space and institutions. Conflicting as well as accommodativing, interactions of these mentalities have been a major source of global modernity internal contradictions and a tendency to change.