Conworld

• Contemporary world


  The things that are happening now or recently
• Why do you need to study the world?
• At first glance, the world as a concept is abstract. Your daily interactions are considered interactions with your country, not the world.
• However, you only need to step back a little bit to see that the world "out there" is already here.
• The media and the internet serve as your windows to the contemporary world.
• You are already a citizen of the world, whether you are aware of it or not.
• Just by living your life, you automatically think about the contemporary world.
• Your consumption habits are global.
• Studying the outside world is a cure to parochialism- an outlook that is limited to one's immediate community.
• You need to study the world because you will be interacting with it.
• Globalization


  The interconnectedness of people and businesses across the world that eventually leads to global, cultural, political, and economic integration
• Globalization


  The ability to communicate easily with others all over the world to conduct business internationally
• Globalization


  The free movement of goods, services, and people across the world in a seamless manner
• Globalization


  The liberalization of countries of their impact protocols and welcoming foreign investment into sectors that are the mainstays of our economy
• Thomas Larsson, 2001: 'It is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer.'
• Martin Khor, the former president of the Third World Network in Malaysia, once regarded globalization as colonization.
• Solid


  Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things, and it can either be natural or man-made
• Solid


  Represents traditional community, there is limited interaction
• Solid


  • landforms and bodies of water (natural)
  • Great Wall of China (man-made)
  • The Nine-dash line- an imaginary line used by the People's Republic of China in their claim to the South China Sea (modern man-made)
• Liquid


  Takes the shape of its container, not fixed, increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary world
• Liquid


  Symbolizes the start of modernization
• Flows


  The movement of people, things, places, ideas, culture, and information across the globe due to the advances in technology, economic and political integration, and establishment of global policies that lessen and eliminate the existing borders
• Flows


  • foreign cuisines being patronized by Filipinos
• Flows


  Symbolizes the intensive or extreme interaction