This is a message for my RES 330 class.
Globalization is an overused and highly abstract phrase.
When people start talking about globalization, l think of Orwell and those comfortable mechanical euphamisms which we use to stop ourselves thinking too hard. The term is applied in such abtract ways that usually l cannot figure out which part of this people are talking about. The assumption is that gloablization, whatever it is, touches everything. Another assumption that globalization is somehow very modern and unique to the late 20th century. And as l mentioned in class, global mechanisms can be used for the benefit of mankind, or not as the case may be.