It means many things to many people, but most of them include the international economy, the information and communications revolution, the rapid pace of the mass media communications and transnational travel and cooperation. While these are goods that most of the people in the developing world take for granted, they are also increasingly reminders of how far behind the minority of the population, the majority of the population is falling. While we have more money in circulation than ever before, more natural wealth has been discovered, and there are more powerful technological inventions than ever before, there are also more people living in poverty, more people dying from preventable diseases and more people lacking the necessities on a list of necessary that grows longer by the day.
Globalization is thus a blessing to some and a curse to others.
It is development to some and merely a stark reminder to the lack thereof to others. Yet the debate about globalization has often ignored this point. Instead this debate has often turned towards how globalization can be productive to the rest of the world. This assumes the reality of globalization and the prerequisites for its existence. This in fact creates our own reality for each of us.