GS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: North American Free Trade Agreement, United Nations Environment Programme, Centrism
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We are slowly leaving behind the condition of modern nationality that gradually unfolded from the eighteenth century onwards. We are moving towards the new condition of postmodern globality. Globality signifies a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant. Globality might eventually be transformed into planetarity a new social condition brought about by the successful colonization of our solar system. Global imaginary is a concept referring to people"s growing consciousness of belonging to a global community. People need to look beyond their local culture for home and identity. They all felt different parts of it and therefore came to the conclusion that it was various things. This relates to globalization in the fact that you cannot look at is as a singular process. Each globalization expert is right in identifying one dimension, but it is also many other dimensions.
