The World as a Global Village

Globalization- movement between people, ideas, and cultures. Moves people to interact on a global scale.

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

The term “globalization” is used to describe this phenomenon. According to Harris, the term is being used in a variety of contexts. In a very broad context, media use it almost daily to refer to a wide variety of political, sociological, environmental, and economic trends.

For decades till today, the word of “Globalization” has been a controversial topic between the nations. Some people are against and the others are for it. In simple words, the meaning of globalization is the merging of all the world to become a small village, and that is surely will lead to more interaction between the people from different parts of the world.

“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world” (The State University of New York, 2014, para 1).

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology (Globalization 101). Globalization has progressively integrated its way into all countries, consequently, it has also integrated its way in the Gwich’n society and the Mosuo people of Southwest China leaving both positive and negative impacts on their traditional culture and society.

The global village is vastly evident throughout all of society, moreso than ever before. As a result of the formation of this global village, there has been many consequences for society. With the rising coexistence of local and global communities, local society is adapting to suit the needs of the global village. Hence, there is a battle between the individual and the power of globalisation, as the world is becoming more connected. Rob Sitch’s 1997 film, ‘The Castle’, portrays the effects of the global village through the juxtaposition of the Kerrigan family to the Barlow group, a transnational corporation. The global village concept is also portrayed in CBC TV’s 1960 interview with Marshall McLuhan, ‘The World is a Global Village’.

Globalization is the process by which different societies and cultures integrate through a worldwide network of political ideas through transportation, communication, and trade. Generally, globalization has affected many nations in various ways; economically, politically, and socially. It is a term that refers to the fast integration and interdependence of various nations, which shapes the world affairs on a global level. Simply put; globalization is the world coming together. In this essay I will discuss multiple perspectives on globalization through the analysis of these three sources.

The end of the Cold War brought about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, paving the way for an unprecedented new paradigm – one characterised by the end of hostilities between the two dominant ideologies: Soviet communism and American liberal capitalism. This dominant new paradigm encouraged the homogenisation of ideas, in the form of exchanging ethos and values along former cultural, ideological and geographical divides. As such, this integration of world societies has earned the title ‘globalisation’, forcing the global community to appear so united as to warrant the metaphor of a global village. (Note: This paragraph pains me to read – I will eventually re-write it.)

In many ways, Bill McKibben's work of non-fiction, Deep Economy, offers an antithesis to globalization. Whereas the founding principle of globalization is to make processes for commerce international, thereby reducing the world to a single 'global village', McKibben largely advocates the opposite approach within this manuscript: localization. In fact, the author implicitly and explicitly states that globalization is producing a number of noxious effects that can only be rectified by localization. The international and national economies that globalization is based upon is not only slowly draining monetary resources, but also the very fostering of globalization via remote communication (such as the internet or wireless devices) is actually serving to alienate people from those who they are closet to their neighbors. Within Deep Economy, however, the author posits the viewpoint that a monetary approach based on local economics can not only conserve what remaining natural, cheap sources of energy that are still left on the planet, but also create a true sense of community that can empower and ultimately bring fulfillment to the lives of the people who participate in it.

Globalization: The process of social, political, economic, cultural, and technological integration among countries around the world (Luthans & Doh, 2012).

and as a force for pursuing the business agenda to further globalization. However, in recent years,the world has become a global village.

The world is a global community where one environment effects another. It is a cascading effect where one community connects into another just as a lake connects in to the river system, river systems connect into vast expanses of oceans and seas. Interconnection is key to global success.

Globalization can be defined as ‘international integration’, which can be described as the process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and functioning together. This process is a combination of economic, technological, and political forces (dictionary.com).

It is said that technology is turning our world into a global village, and this is true to some extent but even now if we move from one city to another, one can feel the difference in language, culture, life style and many more.