WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
Up to now no popular dictionary has provided a definitive definition of globalization. For example, the Oxford dictionary defines the adjective “global” (covering or affecting the whole world), does not provide a noun for the word. Its meaning is not also clear in dictionaries and substantial disagreements exist among those who use it. The problem of a universally accepted definition of globalization depends largely on the angle under which one tries to group it.
Etymologically, globalization can be divided into two: the adjective “global” and the suffix “ization”. The adjective global can be defined as worldwide, total; pertaining to or embracing the whole of a group items e.t.c. from its etymology, therefore globalization may be said to refer to the act of making worldwide global. It informs us of the process of making global in scope.
Generally and simply put, globalization is the increased interconnectedness of all people on the face of the earth. It can also be described as a simultaneous extension and compression of time and space. On the other hand, globalization has limited people and place of the entire world in a way hitherto unknown by humanity. This phenomenon clearly involves more than the transnational mobility of capital and the relocation of business. It also involves the mobility and relocation of people and even entire population. On the other hand, these increased connection have been generated a density of relationships capable of oppressing the human community. Globalization is to be viewed as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring miles away and vice-versa. Globalization involves both the particularization of universalism and the universalism of particularism. As the world becomes a single place, various collectivities are, so to say called upon to declare their calling in global human condition in a world which is no longer simply in itself. Globalization consists of process which leads towards global interdependence and increasing rapidity of exchange across vast distances.
More specifically globalization has many elements of meaning in it. It refers to the cultural domain. It may refer to economic circumstances, and worldwide communication.
DANGERS OF GLOBALIZATION.
The advantages of globalization do not blind one to talk about its dangers. The economic globalization does not in itself guarantee a fair distribution of goods among the citizens of different countries especially in Africa. What happens in Africa is that, the wealth produced is often concentrated in the hands of a small group of persons that bring about a further weakening of countries in Africa. The decisions covering the future of the Africa continent are taken by small group of nations. Economic globalization has also worked to the deterrent of the poor, tending to push poorer countries to the margin of international economic and political relations. In reality, the wealth produced often leads up to a global system governed by a few centres in the hands of private individuals. And many nations from the southern Hemisphere are not strong enough to hold their own in a global market economy.
At the culture market level, it has been noted, the intrusive, even invasive, character of the logic of the market reduces progressively the area available to humankind for voluntary and public action. Here am trying to single out the issue of economism which globalization is spreading worldwide at an unimaginable speed. The market implies its way of thinking and acting and stamps its scale of values upon behavior. Globalization makes possible by the modern communications media which can draw societies into a secularist and materialistic global culture. As a result, traditional family and social values which had given people direction in life have been ignored. Concerning morality, the current globalization does not favor a process of discernment and mature synthesis, but fosters a relativist attitude which makes it more difficult to accept Christ as the way, the truth and the life for everyone. There is, in fact a great danger for globalization to be just to be another name for absolute relativization of values and the homogenization of life styles and cultures. The internet, as an illustration, being a forum in which practically everything is acceptable and almost nothing is lasting, favours a relativistic way of thinking and sometimes feeds the flight from personal responsibility and commitment.
Up to now no popular dictionary has provided a definitive definition of globalization. For example, the Oxford dictionary defines the adjective “global” (covering or affecting the whole world), does not provide a noun for the word. Its meaning is not also clear in dictionaries and substantial disagreements exist among those who use it. The problem of a universally accepted definition of globalization depends largely on the angle under which one tries to group it.
Etymologically, globalization can be divided into two: the adjective “global” and the suffix “ization”. The adjective global can be defined as worldwide, total; pertaining to or embracing the whole of a group items e.t.c. from its etymology, therefore globalization may be said to refer to the act of making worldwide global. It informs us of the process of making global in scope.
Generally and simply put, globalization is the increased interconnectedness of all people on the face of the earth. It can also be described as a simultaneous extension and compression of time and space. On the other hand, globalization has limited people and place of the entire world in a way hitherto unknown by humanity. This phenomenon clearly involves more than the transnational mobility of capital and the relocation of business. It also involves the mobility and relocation of people and even entire population. On the other hand, these increased connection have been generated a density of relationships capable of oppressing the human community. Globalization is to be viewed as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring miles away and vice-versa. Globalization involves both the particularization of universalism and the universalism of particularism. As the world becomes a single place, various collectivities are, so to say called upon to declare their calling in global human condition in a world which is no longer simply in itself. Globalization consists of process which leads towards global interdependence and increasing rapidity of exchange across vast distances.
More specifically globalization has many elements of meaning in it. It refers to the cultural domain. It may refer to economic circumstances, and worldwide communication.
DANGERS OF GLOBALIZATION.
The advantages of globalization do not blind one to talk about its dangers. The economic globalization does not in itself guarantee a fair distribution of goods among the citizens of different countries especially in Africa. What happens in Africa is that, the wealth produced is often concentrated in the hands of a small group of persons that bring about a further weakening of countries in Africa. The decisions covering the future of the Africa continent are taken by small group of nations. Economic globalization has also worked to the deterrent of the poor, tending to push poorer countries to the margin of international economic and political relations. In reality, the wealth produced often leads up to a global system governed by a few centres in the hands of private individuals. And many nations from the southern Hemisphere are not strong enough to hold their own in a global market economy.
At the culture market level, it has been noted, the intrusive, even invasive, character of the logic of the market reduces progressively the area available to humankind for voluntary and public action. Here am trying to single out the issue of economism which globalization is spreading worldwide at an unimaginable speed. The market implies its way of thinking and acting and stamps its scale of values upon behavior. Globalization makes possible by the modern communications media which can draw societies into a secularist and materialistic global culture. As a result, traditional family and social values which had given people direction in life have been ignored. Concerning morality, the current globalization does not favor a process of discernment and mature synthesis, but fosters a relativist attitude which makes it more difficult to accept Christ as the way, the truth and the life for everyone. There is, in fact a great danger for globalization to be just to be another name for absolute relativization of values and the homogenization of life styles and cultures. The internet, as an illustration, being a forum in which practically everything is acceptable and almost nothing is lasting, favours a relativistic way of thinking and sometimes feeds the flight from personal responsibility and commitment.
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