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• Globalization


  A very important change, if not, the "most important"
• Global age


  The reality and omnipresence of globalization makes us see ourselves as part of
• Globalization

  A multitude of processes that involve the economy, political systems and culture
• Globalization


  The process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer
• Globalization is seen by some as occurring through and with regression, colonialism, and destabilization
• Broad and inclusive definition of globalization


  Globalization means the onset of the borderless world
• Narrow and exclusive definition of globalization


  The characteristics of the globalization trend include the internationalizing of production, the international division of labor, new migratory movements from South to North, the new competitive environment that accelerate these processes, and the internationalizing of state
• Globalization is a complex and multifaceted concept as the definitions deal with either economic, political or social dimensions
• Globalization


  A transplanetary process or a set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as structures they encounter and create that are barriers to , or expedite those flows
• The perspective of the person who defines globalization shapes its definition
• Globalization is the debate and the debate is globalization
• Globalization is a reality that is changing as human society develops
• Solid


  Barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things, can be natural or man-made
• Liquid


  Increasing ease of movement of people, things, information and places in the contemporary world
• Liquidity is the once increasing and proliferating today, so the metaphor that could best describe globalization is liquidity
• Flows


  The movement of people, things, places and information brought by the growing porosity of global limitations
• Homogeneity


  The increasing sameness in the world as cultural inputs, economic factors and political orientations of societies expand to create common practices, same economies and similar forms of government
• Homogeneity in culture


  • Cultural imperialism, Americanization
• Homogeneity in economy

  • Spread of neoliberalism, capitalism and the market economy, global economic crises
• Homogeneity in politics


  • Emerging similar models of governance
• Homogeneity in media

  • Media imperialism, dominance of large media corporations
• McDonaldization


  The process by which Western societies are dominated by the principles of fast food restaurants, involving efficiency, calculability, predictability and control
• Grobalization


  The process wherein nations, corporations, etc. impose themselves on geographic areas in order to gain profits, power and so on
• Heterogeneity


  The differences because of either lasting differences or of the hybrids or combinations of cultures that can be produced through the different transplanetary processes
• Glocalization


  Global forces interact with local factors or a specific geographic area, producing the "glocal"
• Jihad


  The political groups that are engaged in an intensification of nationalism and that leads to greater political heterogeneity throughout the world