Globalisation basically means that one predominant system of values transpires all over the planet.
In today's world, it is largely Americanizatino, and in economic field, a victory of efficinecy above all. Its technical foundation is the advancement in telecommunicatinos technology, e-mail, internet, CNN etc. How you like America or not, is the essential dividing line as you face the globalisation. And the predominant values were largely common. If the shift of hegemony had been done to outside of Anglo-Saxon coccoon, the world would have needed more time for adjustment.