Globalisation
INTRODUCTION
Globalization is not a single concept that can be defined and encompassed within a set time frame, nor is it a process that can be defined clearly with a beginning and an end. Furthermore, it cannot be expounded upon with certainty and be applicable to all people and in all situations. Globalization involves economic integration; the transfer of policies across borders; the transmission of knowledge; cultural stability; the reproduction, relations, and discourses of power; it is a global process, a concept, a revolution, and an establishment of the global market free from sociopolitical control. Globalization encompasses all of these things. It is a concept that has been defined variously over the years, with some connotations referring to progress, development and stability, integration and cooperation, and others referring to regression, colonialism, and destabilization. Despite these challenges, this term brings with it a multitude of hidden agendas. An individual’s political ideology, geographic location, social status, cultural background, and ethnic and religious affiliation provide the background that determines how globalization is interpreted. These are some of the factors that contribute to globalization, the internet, World Bank, worldwide satellite technology mass media and mobile phones, government investing in abroad bilateral aid, transnational more powerful than any state, shrinking world role of air transport super freighters.
DEFINITIONS
Larsson, (2001), stated that globalization is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on the other side of the world.
Apart from that Globalization, is also a growing phenomenon that can be described as a “shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy” (Hill 7). Furthermore, Mirza. (2009).has his own
Globalization is not a single concept that can be defined and encompassed within a set time frame, nor is it a process that can be defined clearly with a beginning and an end. Furthermore, it cannot be expounded upon with certainty and be applicable to all people and in all situations. Globalization involves economic integration; the transfer of policies across borders; the transmission of knowledge; cultural stability; the reproduction, relations, and discourses of power; it is a global process, a concept, a revolution, and an establishment of the global market free from sociopolitical control. Globalization encompasses all of these things. It is a concept that has been defined variously over the years, with some connotations referring to progress, development and stability, integration and cooperation, and others referring to regression, colonialism, and destabilization. Despite these challenges, this term brings with it a multitude of hidden agendas. An individual’s political ideology, geographic location, social status, cultural background, and ethnic and religious affiliation provide the background that determines how globalization is interpreted. These are some of the factors that contribute to globalization, the internet, World Bank, worldwide satellite technology mass media and mobile phones, government investing in abroad bilateral aid, transnational more powerful than any state, shrinking world role of air transport super freighters.
DEFINITIONS
Larsson, (2001), stated that globalization is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on the other side of the world.
Apart from that Globalization, is also a growing phenomenon that can be described as a “shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy” (Hill 7). Furthermore, Mirza. (2009).has his own