In a critical perspective, commodification is associated with the negative effects of globalisation, causing the dispersion of local value and authenticity while a local culture is aligned to a global economy.

Appreciation is when someone seeks to understand and learn about another culture in an effort to broaden their perspective and connect with others cross-culturally. Appropriation on the other hand, is simply taking one aspect of a culture that is not your own and using it for your own personal interest.

“Commodification” means transforming something into a product for commercial purposes, an item to be bought and sold in the market. Such use is considered an appropriation when done without permission, and can cause significant cultural, spiritual, and economic harm. …

In commodification, subjectification of an. object occurs when cultural values influence the. exchange value of material objects, generally so. that their value is more relative rather than their. actual use value.

Within a capitalist economic system, commodification is the transformation of goods, services, ideas, nature, personal information or people into commodities or objects of trade. According to Gøsta Esping-Andersen people are commodified or ‘turned into objects’ when selling their labour on the market to an employer.

To Marx, the “exchange value” of a commodity also represents its owner’s purchasing power, the ability to command labor, i.e., the amount of labor time that is claimed in acquiring it.

Karl Marx. German Ideology: History: Fundamental Conditions. Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature.