Globalization wields powerful influence over societies and cultures. Business travelers and tourists both observe and distribute new ideas. New ideas, interactions, foods and products are tried, then embraced or discarded. With the internet or satellite television, films, publications, photographs, news reports and cartoons can travel instantly, entertaining or angering audiences around the globe. With social media like Facebook or Twitter, individuals offer news and own instant pronouncements on trends. Whether slowly through immigration or immediately online, these connections bring about some convergence of norms on fashion to human rights while also provoking challenges from traditionalists. A global society has emerged, and it’s tightly linked.

The China Syndrome

Independent press in the US more fiction than fact?
Paul Krugman
May 13, 2003

A Bombing Shatters the Saudi Art of Denial

Religious terror in the birthplace of Islam, but "the first enemy they must behead is the denial itself."
Neil MacFarquhar
May 18, 2003

China's School Children Learn to Love English

China begins teaching English to prepare its 130 million elementary school children for a bright future in a new, globalized era.
Richard McGregor
April 15, 2003

Chinese Beats... on Cuban Streets

In Cuba's Chinatown, Chinese are few and far between.
May 20, 2003

Thanks China, Now Go Home: Buy-up of Zambia Revives Old Colonial Fears

Despite economic growth, Zambians grow weary of all things China
Chris McGreal
October 5, 2007