08 Oktobris 2005 @ 12:04
Globalisation  
...it was cold, so he put on his sweater from China. He had some homework to do, therefore he sat in front of his PC's monitor, manufactured in Southern Korea, that was connected to his PC, mainly created in Taiwan but assembled in Russia. He turned on music of some American artist, drank some Indish tea from his Czech mug, and then entered the internet, the land of no borders and limitations...

There have always been borders in people's society. People have been caged as well as transit of goods by slow transportation, language barrier and actual country borders causing difficulties to travel. Now it is possible to reach New York in a day's time. Riga - Tallinn route takes about four hours. Now it is easy to get anywhere, if only you are able to pay. Even the language barrier has started to kneel in front of the globalisation; with the reign of internet the power of the English lanuage has increased, creating it the most popular international language in the world, and it is also possible to learn as many foreign lanugages as you can because of the education available. The countries have opened their door to the transit of goods, letting their inhabitants get products of various origin.

To my mind, this process is a normal consequence of the world population rise and the development of transportation. The only idea I find peculiar is: what is the marginal border of the mankind? For centuries, people have had the feeling of home in their own country and the feeling as a foreigner in another country. Now they say we live in a global village. What will happen if there is only one great World, not divided into countries? What will happen, if people are no longer caged in their own community? Maybe when I'm sixty-four, the answers to these questions will be clearer.
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