Yet now it seems people have forgotten the past and have taken a liking to the globalization of today. With globalization, one has the freedom to choose from any of many food products. This globalization also makes possible missions to Mars, the steady growth of stock markets, and almost instantaneous travel to any city in the world. The truth is there are some benefits to globalization like the first transcontinental railroad, the Internet, and a greater literacy rate everywhere. Extinction of languages.
Linguists estimate the number of languages today at about six thousand.
That s a far higher rate of extinction than for any plant or animal species. More somber is not the extinction of languages themselves, but of entire cultures that go with them, as the economic lure of major languages and lifestyles reaches the most remote places of the Earth. It seems, then, that everything has its price and if the benefits outnumber the costs then we should proceed. But from globalization I see no benefits, no gains, no better way of life. I see dirty rivers, lonely grandfathers, and unthinking children.