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.

Obama's International Background an Asset, Not a Flaw

Parents have an obligation to prepare their children for global exchanges of the future
Donald K. Emmerson
February 5, 2007

Mirror, Mirror on the Web

With internet access, digital camera and some flair, anyone can achieve celebrity
Lakshmi Chaudhry
January 17, 2007

Muslims “Get” Globalization, But Does It Get Them?

Biased media treatment exacerbates negative perceptions of globalization in the Muslim world
Mehmood Kazmi
January 22, 2007

Kuala Lumpur Chinese Parties Okay Use of English in Schools

Children in Malaysia's Chinese-language schools to learn math in English and Chinese.
October 31, 2002

Farewell, my lovely

Hollywood has been a vanguard of globalization. It has successfully carried ideas about freedom and fun to the far corners of the world, wiping out in the process may producers of entertainment. But thanks to the same forces of globalization Hollywood itself may be feeling the pinch.
Christopher Parkes
April 4, 2002