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Transnational practices (TNP) refer to processes and results of interactions among people which happen within specific institutional contexts that cross state borders. They are acted out in the economic, political, and cultural sphere. The capitalist system, which has gone global operates itself by using these three spheres of transnational practices. Economic transnational practices are the essential building blocks of the system, transnational political practices are the principles of controlling the system, and transnational Cultural practice are the adhesive materials that keep the whole system from falling apart. Transnational practices have emerged as Globalization took the form of capitalism and the Washington Consensus, which both support the idea that Free market is the key to economic development. In the economic sphere, Transnational corporation(TNCs) organize the production of goods and services. In the political sphere, the transnational capitalist classTransnational capitalist class creates a political environment where goods and services can be successfully distributed across borders, regardless of their origins. In the cultural sphere, agents that act out transnational practices and institutions that spread cultures produce values and identities that sustain the continuous want for goods and services. In reality, the three spheres are very closely related, if not inextricably mixed. Transnational corporations influence the formation of domestic policies, and the culture of Consumerism within the globalized capitalist system is spread by transnational practices of Transnational corporations.

Economic Transnational Practices
Economic transnational practices are economic activities that transcend state boundaries. Economic activities that might seem restricted to domestic boundaries can have transnational effects. For example, local producers sell their product to a wholesaler without knowing who the final customer is. How transnational a specific economic actor is differs according to its influence, or in other words, size. The World economy is currently dominated by few Transnational corporations whose influence is all over the world, a number of medium-sized companies whose influence is in some multiple markets, and only a few small firms whose economic activities are practiced in a limited number of markets. The expansion of capitalism due to globalization has made economic actors - both individual actors such as workers and entrepreneurs and collective actors such as TNCs – strive to extend their global influence as consumers. This can be proven in the increasing efforts to improve labor conditions and the rising trend towards Ethical consumerism.

Political Transnational Practices
The dominant actors that engage in political transnational practices are the Transnational capitalist class(TCC). It is the dominant political entity within the globalized capitalist system which strives for control over global Power (international relations). The Transnational capitalist class, rather than being domestic, are transnational in the following five aspects: its members share not only regional interests but also global interests; they exercise economic control at work, political control in regional and global politics, cultural control in everyday life; they hold a global perspective on issues; they consist of people from diverse nations who identify themselves as a global citizen(Global citizenship); and they share a similar lifestyle such as the luxurious consumption of goods and services. The Transnational capitalist class includes four fractions according to Leslie Sklair.


 * corporate fraction (TNC executives and local affiliates);
 * state fraction (globalizing states and inter-state bureaucrats and politicians);
 * technical fraction (globalizing professionals); and
 * consumerist fraction (merchants and the media).

The Transnational capitalist class and its local affiliates exert rule by connections with globalizing bureaucrats and politicians in political parties that are in favor of the globalized capitalist system. They even exert rule in non-capitalist states in an indirect manner. This is seen as the entrance fee to the globalized capitalist system.

Cultural Transnational Practices
Cultural transnational practices rest on the culture of Consumerism in the globalized capitalist system. The culture-ideology of consumerism has transformed from regional consuming patterns of the rich to a global phenomenon. Capitalism entered its phase of globalizing in the 1960’s and at the same time Mass media was also globalized to tell people that the culture of consumption was essential. In the globalized capitalist system, Mass media fastens the cycle of marketing through advertising, ultimately speeding up production and consumption as a whole. Blurring the lines between information, entertainment, and promotion of products is the heart of their practices. mass media imprints this process and the dominant ideology of Consumerism into the general consumers’ minds. As a result, they create a cultural ideology that is so crucial to Capitalism that without it, capitalism would fall apart.