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• This swedish journalist saw globalization as ”the process of worldd shrinkage, of distances getting smaller, things moving closer”

  Thomas Larsson
• he regarded globalization as colonization. he was the formr president of third world network (TWN) in malaysia

  martin khor
• it describes the opportunity by which the people or factors behind a certain development in a country benefit as well. it gives everyone a chance to participate in management.

  Broad and inclusive globalization
• it is the restriction or the limitation within a group. in terms of gobalization, it means that the focus of globalization is limited to the country alone.

  narrow and exclusive globalization.
• it refers to barriers that prevent the movement of things. it can either be natural or man made.

  solid
• takes the shape of its container. it refers to the increasing ease of movemeen of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world.

  liquid
• the metaphor that could best describe globalization is liquidity
• Flows are the movement of people, tthings, places and information brought by the growing “porosity” of global limitations.
• Homogeneity refers to the increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices. In culture, it is often linked to cultural imperialism.
• Heterogeneity pertains to creaion of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world.
• Heterogeneity refers to differences or the hybrids of combinations of cultures which can be prroduced through different transplanetary processes.
• Heterogeneity in culture is associated with cultural hybridization.
• who termed glocalization?

  roland robertson
• the major points of the beginnings of globalization started after the second world war
• It is our basic human need to make our lives better that made globalization possible. One can trace the beginning of globalization from our ancestors in Africa who walked out from the said continent in the late Ice age. This long journey led them to all-known continents today, roughly, after 50,000 years.


  Hardwired
• Globalization is a long-term cyclical proceess and thus, finding its origin is a daunting task. This vieew suggest to the idea that otyther global ages have appeared. There is also a notion to suspect that this point of globalization will soon disappear and reappear.


  Cycles
• these are also called waves and each has its own origin. today’s globalization is nott unique if this is a case.


  epoch
• specific events are aso considered as part of the fourth view in explaining the origin of the globalization.


  events
• Recent changes compromised thee fifth view. These broad changes happened in the last half of the 20th century.
• There are 3 notable changes as the origin of globalization that we know

  1. The emergencee of the united states as the global power
  2. the mergence of multinational corporations
  3. the demise of the soviet union and the end of the cold war
• globalization has a shifting nature. It is complex, multifaceted, and can be

  influenced by the people who define it.
• to him, the debate about what can be done about globalization and what it is similar.

  kumar
• Some academics claimed that defining globalization is a useless task
• Second, Globalization is the debate and the debate is globalization. One became part and parcel of the other.
• First, the perspective of the person who defines globalization shapes its definition.
• Third, globalization is reality. It is changing as human society develops. It has happened before and is still happening today. We should expect it to continue

  to happen in the future.
• theories see globalization as a process that increases either homogeneity or heterogeneity.