Contemplate the millions of families who have gone from subsistence farming to steady jobs in export industries, the students who have enriched themselves and their homelands after studying abroad, and the blossoming wonders of the Internet.
Globalization means that the disparate parts of the world are coming closer together.
It is happening through business and social exchanges among nations - as well as the dovetailing of practices within countries with the emerging international norms. One reason is that the process has reached truly bewildering speed. Moreover, the benefits of globalization seem to be flowing disproportionately to the developed countries. Finally, those same wealthy nations are the ones issuing the most demands about how the process should work. Globalization is undoubtedly a Western concept and bears a strong imprint of American political and economic power.