COMM 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intercultural Competence, Marshall Mcluhan, North American Free Trade Agreement
20 Dec 2018
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Today"s plan: the imperative for intercultural competence, definitions of cultures. Globalization: globalization is the integration of capital, technology and information across national boarders, united nations, wto world trade organization. Iucn international union for conservation of nature. Impossible to deglobalize society because it is so deeply integrated: as mcluhan predicted the world is becoming increasingly interconnected in many significant ways. Information technology: during the 20th century, information and transportation technology have significantly reduced interaction times. Travel technology: transportation transatlantic for example, columbus took 71 days and today it can take as little as 4 hours. Economic transformation: canada positions itself as a world economic partner, developing trading relationships around the world, member of g8, g20 and wto. Nafta (1994: north american free trade agreement implemented a barrier free trading zone comprising. Canada, the united states and mexico eliminating tariffs on many trade goods prompting an increase in economic interdependence of the three-member nations.
