"[2] Cultural leveling within the United States has been driven by mass market media such as radio and television broadcasting and nationwide distribution of magazines and catalogs.
[4] Today, due to the crossing or travel and communication with time and space there is just about no "other side of the world" anymore, giving us the inevitable result of what is known as cultural leveling.
To convey how fundamental the loss of diversity and the subsequent leveling have been, many sociologists such as Daniel Lerner amplified the opinion through the phrase "the passing of traditional society."
In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the different nations, of the traditions of the various people, by which the individuals define himself in relation to life’s fundamental questions.
[8] These new trendy concepts claimed that boxing and jazz were the only interesting art forms of the modern age and "negro music" set the standards for what was new and stimulating.
[8] The entire region between Budapest and Istanbul displayed similar lifestyles of "jazz bands, gramophones, Chaplin posters, international press, nudist magazines from Berlin, comics from Paris, taxis, symptoms of women’s emancipation in the Turkish-Levantine salons.
[8] With all the chaotic co-existence of cultural products in the Balkans, reports have stated that it however does not actually frighten the visitor and that people should deal with the chaos of transnational influences that they are suddenly exposed to in the course of time.
[8] Reports on Prague’s sense of national folklore and Budapest’s ambivalent modernity demonstrate how the world's old continent cities cope with cultural leveling.
"[8] Jewish scholar Erich Auerbach wrote in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature that during the Second World War: "Beneath the conflicts, and also through them, an economic and cultural leveling process is taking place.
"[9] Erich Auerbach goes into depth about his belief that one must look for both starting points and concrete details from which the "global process can be inductively reconstructed.
"[9] In the conclusion to Auerbach's Mimesis, he stated "The ongoing unification of the world is most concretely visible now in the unprejudiced, precise, interior and exterior representation of the random moment in the lives of different people.
Radcliffe-Brown, "religion is a storehouse for the mores and ethics conducive to a well-functioning society and embodies truth and meaning, and the individual's role is merely one of assimilating the existing belief system.