On a macro level, with the worsening global economy, it seems that the political-economic forces coming from the major cultural power centers of the world also are pushing for a boundary-free and seemingly more oracular version of globalization in the hope of reaping more profit from global markets. A decade earlier, cultural globalization perhaps was merely an extension of soft power, asides from economic interests. However, with the recent financial crisis in the USA, globalization is now, more often than not, seen as an economic panacea for its nation economic.