In the article we argue that the negative influence of globalization on national culture and aesthetics is exaggerated and contradicted by facts, for in reality negative and positive consequences of globalization coexist, not the least because different political systems in different countries and regions within these countries respond differently. China has a long history of strong assimilation capability but this does not signify that it cannot become an object of assimilation. In author’s view both global Americanization and global Sinicization are unsubstantiated modern myths. Globalization and anti-globalization resemble the spear and the shield, for they are a union of opposites of each other in search of self-development. For a small, weak and defensless nation appropriating globalization signifies assimilation. For China it means a multicultural reordering with the Chinese culture as its main corpus.V članku trdimo, da je bila pogosta ocena o negativnem vplivu globalizacije na nacionalno kulturo in estetiko pretirana ter v opreki z dejstvi, saj v resnici negativne in pozitivne posledice globalizacije koeksistirajo, nenazadnje zato, ker se različni politični sistemi v različnih deželah in v regijah teh posameznih dežel odzivajo nanjo različno. Kitajska ima dolgo zgodovino močne asimilacijske sposobnosti, kar pa ne pomeni, da ne more postati predmet asimilacije. Po avtorjevi oceni sta tako globalna amerikanizacija kot globalna sinizacija neutemljena moderna mita. Globalizacija in antiglobalizacija sta kot sulica in ščit, sta enotnost nasprotij drug drugega v iskanju kulturnega samorazvoja. Za majhen in šibek narod brez zaščite pomeni privzeti globalizacije asimilacijo. Za Kitajsko pomeni multikulturno preureditev s kitajsko kulturo kot glavnim korpusom
