Globalization and local and global identities among Iranian students

The process of globalization is both a disputable and an ambiguous issue and it has been approached through various and sometimes contradictory views. One of the major topics related to the process is the survival or persistence of local identities during the process of globalization in which at least two fundamental yet contradictory approaches can be identified. The first approach is promising decrease in local and ethnic arguments in globalization process and as a matter of fact, it points out that by worldwide cultural assimilation, local identities will decrease. On the other hand, there is another approach which forecasts augmentation of ethnic crisis and increase of local identity in the process. Which one of these approaches applies to our three ethnic groups in our research then? This is the topic under investigation in this paper. This survey method research, the subjects of which are Azeri Turk, Fars and Kurd students of Tabriz University, indicates that as the global identity among the students increase, their local identities decrease. In other words, with the augmentation of globalization process, local identities begin to decrease and it means that the theories of latter approach in the research are rejected and the theories of the former approach are confirmed.