Globalization

             What is the Globalization? Until the mid-eighties the world was divided in two blocks; one capitalist, with predominance of the private initiative and the market like regulator of goods and services. The other denominated the socialist, based on the economic planing, the role of the state as industrialist and regulator of the supply and demands. The fall of "the socialist" model from the extreme competition, jointly with the end of the cold war, indicates the beginning of a new era of changes and world-wide re-establishments that have been denominated "globalization".
             Mc Luhan mentioned to us that "The World has become Global Village" in which the individuals have not changed externally but they can communicate in seconds to the most distant places of the planet, the product that is consumed can be financed by a country, designed and programmed in other and made by a third, distributed from a fourth country and sold in all the cities of the Earth. The systems flow all over the continents. The terms Distance and Difference are changing very substantively in this process. This way, the borders are being transformed into "cellular walls".
             Mc Luhan was first in using the word globalization, he was the theoretician of information; in the Sixties he explained, that the advances in the electronics and the communications would take to the world to create a "global village" where the facts would be known by all the inhabitants of the globe.
             There is a wide controversy with the word Globalization. Many sustain that the term is not appropriate because it would suppose a world-wide equitable phenomenon, that is to say, where all the countries benefit the same. Nevertheless, what we are living at the moment demonstrates that the inequality between countries, regions and blocks has enlarged in the last twenty years, therefore this consideration would be leaving aside the political, social, geographic, cultural and ethnic variables, own ...

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