Globalization - Categories of Globalization

• Globalization includes communication, collaboration, connection, economic governance, trade technology and technology.
• Globalization emphasizes interconnectedness and connections.
• Manfred B. Steger is a political science professor at University of Hawaii
• According to Manfred B. Steger, globalization refers to the relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space.
• According to Manfred B. Steger, globalization is a multidimensional phenomenon involving economics, politics, and culture.
• Expansion refers to the spreading of ideas, norms, lifestyle, and material and non-material culture.
• Multiplication happens when social networks increasingly overcome the old traditional way of living.
• Shrinkage happens when the world is becoming a smaller place.
• Arjun Appadurai is an expert on dynamics of globalization.
• Arjun Appadurai proposed the five scapes of flow of globalization.
• Ethnoscapes is the movement of people from one place to another; migration.
• Ideoscapes is when ideas are used as instruments or tools or weapons to provide benefits.
• Technoscapes refers to tools, instruments, and mechanical goods and services.
• Financescapes is the exchange or circular flow of money from one country to another.
• Mediascapes refers to the electronic capabilities of production and dissemination.
• Globalization moves in an upward trajectory.
• Thomas Friedman is an American political commentator and author.
• Thomas Friedman proposed the three categories of globalization.
• Archaic Globalization refers to globalizing events and developments from the earliest civilizations till 1600s.
• Globalization started when man discovered fire.
• During the Archaic Globalization, most people were flat earthers.
• The Old World includes Asia, Europe, and Africa.
• The New World includes America, Australia, and Antartica.
• Christopher Columbus discovered America.
• America was named after Amerigo Vespucci.
• Oranges originated in Southern China, India, and Southearn Asia.
• Apples originated in Kazakhstan.
• Banana originated in Southeast Asia.
• Banana is the arab word for finger.
• Mangoes originated in India.
• Rice was first domesticated in Yangtze River in China.
• Wheat originated in the "cradle of civilization"; Tigris and Euphrates.
• Cereal was named after the Roman Goddess, Ceres.
• Coffee originated from Ethiopia.
• Onion originated from Central Asia and is one of the most ancient food sources.
• Corn or maize is a human invention developed by Mexicans.
• Potatoes were made by Indians in Peru.
• Chocolates originated from Mesoamerica (Mexico) where the first cacao plant was planted.
• Rubber trees or "hevea brasiliensis" originated from Brazil.
• The three principles of Archaic Globalization are: Universalizing Kingship, Expansion of Religion, and Medicinal Understanding.