Globalization (RePost)

Globalization is taking separate parts and making them a whole. Globalization refers to taking distinct and dethatched places or people, and bringing them into a larger body. Globalization is sharing, and is not limited to one subject or area. Becoming more globalized is learning, and teaching at the same time.

Globalization has recently increased to a new level. For globalization to happen, there must be incentive. What is the purpose of becoming more globalized? Why should a country, or its citizens care about what is going on in the rest of world? Because of technology, and capitalism, as well as other factors, globalization has become more prominent.

Technology makes globalization accessible. It makes it possible for people to communicate across the globe, quickly, and efficiently. Globalization is communication; it is impossible for there to be “interconnectivity[1]”, which is part of Professor Fischer’s definition of globalization, without it.

Capitalism has brought businesses to new countries because of the incentive of money. Once they have exhausted the market in their own country, businesses are starting to realize there is money to be made in other parts of the world. According to Theodore Levitt, this is also a byproduct of technology. Technology has made “the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale” because “almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experiences via the new technologies.” [2]

Globalization is a sharing of culture. Through technology we can learn about other countries, while teaching them about ourselves. They can peer into our ways of life through our products and businesses, technological presence, just like we can peer into theirs.

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[1] Fischer, Annemarie. KeyNote: Globalization. Global Media Narratives in the Digital Age, Spring 2011 CourseBlog, Annemarie Fischer. 3 February 2011. Web

[2]

Levitt, Theodore. "Markets." Readings in Internation Business:A Decision Approach. Ed. Robert Z. Aliber, Reid W. Click. . Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1999. Web.