GGRA02H3 Lecture 1: GGRA01 Lecture One Thinking Geographically.docx
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Example- barbados- tourism is main attraction taste and local shops co-exist with global. Eg- kfc (used through advertising ) part of globalization chain. No single definition but some agreement that it involves: Global economic integration, global capitalism ) organization of elements of the global economy into a single system, joining different economic activities in different places into larger systems) Global economic and political interdependence and interconnectivity, i. e. elements of the system are dependent on each other and involve high levels of interconnection on an increasingly global scale. Global culture: idea of global community, common global values, global village. The term global village" was coined by marshall mccluhan. In his book the gutenberg galaxy (1962) he argued that print culture would be replaced by electronic interdependence with electronic media replacing visual culture with aural/oral culture. This would bring humankind together in a collective identity analogous to a village community. Think about the weaknesses in the notion of a global community.