Definition:
(n) globalization, globalisation (growth to a global or worldwide scale) "the globalization of the communication industry"
If you look at the label on your T shirt, most likey you would see that it was made in a country other than the one you're living in right now. What's more, before it reached your wardrobe, this shirt could have very well been made with Chinese cotton sewed by Thai hands, shipped across the Pacific on a French freighter crewed by Spaniards into Sydney Harbour. This international exchange is just one example of globalization, a process that has everything to do with geography.
Wikipedia tells us "An early description of globalization was penned by the American entrepreneur-turned-minister Charles Taze Russell who coined the term 'corporate giants' in 1897, although it was not until the 1960s that the term began to be widely used by economists and other social scientists. The term has since then achieved widespread use in the mainstream press by the later half of the 1980s. Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired numerous competing definitions and interpretations."
Globalization is the process of increasing the interconnections amoung countries in the areas of economics, politics and culture. There are Japanese cars being made in America, McDonalds stores in every country and Australian phone companies having their calls answered in India - these are all representations of globalization.
