Have you ever stopped to realize what an impact the entire world has on you? If not, allow the person who wrote the following to make that realization for you. I got this in my student teaching seminar class today:
Question: What is the truest definition of globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana's death.
Question: How come?
Answer: An English princess, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car, with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk, on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.
This is provided to you by an American, using Bill Gates' technology, and you're probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers, in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals...
That, my friends, is globalization!
I'm not trying to make light of Princess Diana's death. But it kind of makes your head spin to consider how interconnected the world has become. Some people are nervous about globalization. And some people are just in denial. But it's impossible to escape it--the way the world seeps in. You can't fence the world out, and you can't fence yourself in. Technology knows no borders. As one of the first computer geeks stated, "Information wants to be free."
To fear globalization is to fear change, but like it or not, change is a contant in our lives.
Wasn't that the bomb diggity? I don't know who wrote that, but they should get a new German car or something for it.
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