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There's no doubt that globalisation has been the buzzword of the decade. Journalists, politicians, business executives, academics, and others are using the word to signify that something profound is happening, that the world is changing, that a new world economic, political, and cultural order is emerging. Even though globalisation has many aspects, one of those is a global culture. The rise of global culture is an especially salient feature of contemporary globalisation. Global culture includes the proliferation of media technologies that veritably create Marshall McLuhan's dream of a global village, in which people all over the world watch political spectacles like the Gulf War, major sports events, entertainment programs, and advertisements that relentlessly promote capitalist modernization (Wark 1994). At the same time, more and more people are entering into global computer networks that instantaneously circulate ideas, information, and images throughout the world, overcoming boundaries of space and time (Gates 1995). Global culture involves promoting life-style, consumption, products, and identities. Acting in the present age involves understanding the matrix of global and local forces, of forces of domination and resistance, and of a condition of rapid change. Today’s youth are people of the period which is characterized by unevenly developing multiple levels of changes. The vivid sense of "betweenness," or transition, requires that one grasp the connections with the past as well as the novelties of the present and future. Thus, it is important to capture both the continuities and discontinuities of the post- modern with the modern, in order to make sense of current predicament. Therefore it is indeed very interesting to actually see how young people are being influenced and through what mostly. Which aspects are forming youngsters ideas, ideologies, thoughts… Is open future hopeful or troubling for them? Does past stay to be something far away in relation to the closeness of everything else?