GG102 Lecture 5: Gg102 lesson 5
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I suggested that my life (as well as yours!) seems remarkably globalized when we look at the origins of the foods, goods, and information we consume on a daily basis. Every single pencil is a veritable united nations! And, equally surprising, this "international" pencil is not a creation of the globalized 1990s, but of the 19th century! The pencil example suggests that people (at least the privileged ones) have always had trade relationships with people and places in other parts of the world. All these examples remind us that globalization as such certainly has been around for a long time. In other words: globalization is not a new process as such; it is merely the increasing: speed scope scale of globalization that makes the contemporary world seem so much more globalized. Because of those rapid increases, there has been widespread criticism of the process of globalization.
