What is Globalisation?

Globalisation is a popular term but one whose meaning remains obscure, often even among those who invoke it. Indeed, Jan Aart Scholte states that globalisation stands out for quite a large public spread across the world as one of the defining terms of late twentiethcentury social consciousness.[1] “.

Globalisation defines the processes whereby people all over the world interact and affect one another in an instantaneous manner, thus rendering the locations of each individual and the distances between them insignificant. Unlike internationalism, there are no borders separating participants seeking social relations, this means that the world as a whole is regarded as a singe place where straightforward homogenization is meant to occur….(short extract)