Globalisation

• the process by which people, their cultures, money, goods, and information can be transferred between countries, with few or no boundaries.
• It's nothing new
• Language is a key part- especially English

Definition- The increasing interconnectiveness of the world economically culturally and politically.

Origins of the word

• Common usage since the 1990s
• Used to be referred to as global economy
• an umbrella term for how people and places are ever more closely linked
• Positive and negative effects

Economic- Integration

Technological- Spread and development

Political- political view turning global, democracy, free trade

Cultural- One global culture (western) loss of uniqueness

Demographic- population, movement, migration

Environmental- Problems on global scale

Urban-Global cities

Linguistic- English:global language