Contribution to understanding of Globalization

Globalization to my understanding is the process of transformation of local phenomena to global ones and to take note of the fact that neither the local or the global are eliminating one another but have cannibalized each other. I think that there are different and numerous dimensions of Globalization and these include: Economic, Technological, Political, Cultural, Legal and Biological.  To elaborate more on Globalization, I would give the example of the Columbian exchange which followed the arrival of Columbus in the Caribbean. It was simply the exchange of cultures, resources, languages and ideas to and fro the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. it gave essence to globalization because it involved making the local, global and vice-versa. I disagree on the notion made by Bright and Dyer that Globalization ‘bore a distancing relationship to the past’ because there have been several accounts of de-globalization like the interwar period and the 2007-2009 economic crisis which was as serious as the Great Depression. This would rather reattach the link between proto-globalization, modern globalization and present globalization.

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