Globalization: A New Form of Colonization – Part One

Globalization: A New Form of Colonization – Part One  

Globalization is usually defined as the unrestricted flow of information and capital around the world without the limitations of border, religion, politics and geographic cultures.

Most of the times this term is used specifically for economic globalization, when successful companies expand their business in other countries and become multinationals. These days we regularly come across with a term that the world has become a “global
village”. To some extent, this is true and it is because of the great success of different mass media including internet, international television channels and print media.

When we say that the world has become a global village, we do not mean that the physical distance has shortened but the matter of fact is that we can communicate around the world very easily through different mediums.

In the current era, countries are interdependent on each other and it is not possible for any country to survive alone. As we see, after the second world-war, the world was separated in two different camps. The first camp was led by United States of America
and included the western countries and the whole of Europe, while the second camp was led by Russia and included eastern bloc of countries.

The Americans supported the idea of capitalism, whereas the Soviets were for socialism or communism. Once the Soviet Union was dissolved in the late 1980’s, only one super power emerged in the world and that was none other than “America” and since then,
the US is ruling the world, not physically but through media and communication.

There are a number of western multi-national food-chains like McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut, mobile phone companies like Nokia and Siemens and clothing manufacturers like Nike, Addidas and Puma, who have become a symbol of globalization in the modern world.

These multinationals around the world are not just influencing the choices of the people but they are negatively hurting the cultures of the third-world countries. It is quite amazing that how these big multinationals have a stake in the media and how they
are controlling the media because after all, the media generates a big chunk of its revenue through these multinationals.

To be continued …                           

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Posted by Yasir Hashmi on Nov 23 2011. Filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry