The Increasing Interconnectedness

Globalization is the process of increasing interconnectedness among nations, cultures, and people. For instance, the infrastructure of mobile phones is growing, enabling more connection between not only people of the same country, but as well as other countries. Another example of globalization is digital convergence, which makes greater production possible in poorer places around the world. All in all, globalization is very much supported and accelerated by technological developments.

These technological developments and increase in connections between nations and people have resulted in cultural imperialism. As people across the globe have become more connected and less isolated, there has been a loss of local, indigenous, and national cultures. For example, indigenous people such as the Native Americans have lost much of their culture through technology that has advanced in the last century. In the past, Native Americans made things such as clothes and blankets using primitive, but traditional, weaving methods done by hand. However, now such blankets can be made in mass quantity by machines.