There is a famous children's game called telephone, the object of the game is that one person starts a message and it is whispered to the next person and so on. By the end of the entire sequence, the message is generally mixed up and often makes almost no sense at all. However, this children's game appears to have the same idea and outcome as globalization. As ideas, customs and cultures are moved from one nation to the next; they are often construed and appear to be different. Chris Waterman, Dean of the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA, has done case studies on this idea. Specifically, Waterman showed how globalization affected a classic Zulu song, Mbube. Similarly, religions often go through processes where ideas are changed from country to country based on the angle modern culture takes on the subject. In depth, Christianity has had a constant changing of its idea of the covenant with God since its first introduction through Adam. Similar to the game of telephone, Chris......
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