PREFACE AND DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

PREFACE

Not everyone recognized the changes that happened in our society. Few people care about the things that changed our world. Basically, there are changes that happened in every particular aspect in our world such as politics, society, economics, cultures, sciences, technologies and many other things. We cannot actually denie the changes that happened in our world. In this 21^st century, the globe has rapidly changed the world.We all know the word globalization. Globalization is changes that rapidly changed the world. Although we know the word globalization, many people did not actually know the meaning of globalization itself. Not to mention, they usually did not actually know what globalization itself is. That is what basically happened in our world. We did not clearly recognized globalization, although it happened in every second of our lives.

As we mentioned above, many aspects that changes because of globalization, for instance in a term of culture. Culture is something that cannot be separated with us. In 1960s, Indonesia was still holding their culture. Many Indonesian back then knew about folk songs, traditional dresses, traditional houses, and many other things that describe the real Indonesia. But now, few people know about Indonesian culture. Not many people know about Indonesian folk songs, traditional dresses, traditional houses and others. Indonesian nowadays, especially in our generation, has been influenced by west culture. That is one of the things that we concerned about.
Not only that, if we seek from technologies perspective, we all spontaneously remembered about our gadgets. Telephones, mobile phones, computers, laptops, computer tablets, cameras, camcorders and others, are the things that people cannot live without nowadays. Back in 1970s, many people used letters to communicate with someone who is far away. It took days or weeks to wait for the reply. But now, we can communicate with others in a second. We can call, text, chat, video call and many other things that make us easy to communicate with others. This is also the thing that we are going to talk about.From this you can finally realize how rapid the changes can be. Globalization might not be thing that we usually see, but it might be the thing we usually feel. Everything surrounds us is globalization. Weather we realized it or not, it is still globalization. We cannot actually deny that. By this, we would like to explain about globalization itself.

DEFINITION OF GLOBALIZATION

Started from the bottom, now we here. Globalization is a word that we commonly hear. Globalization is something that actually around us. Globalization happens every second of our life. It happens in every aspects of our life such as economics, politics, technologies, cultures, and many other things. So, what is exactly the meaning of globalisation itself.

Globalization itself comes from the word “global”, which means universal. However, globalization also refers to “globalize”, which means making something into global. The word globalization itself is actually known for the first time, in 1930’s publication “Towards New Education”, which drove many people to education interest. Here are the definitions of globalization from scholars:

·      Roland Robertson, stated that globalization is the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole

·      Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King, stated that globalization is all those processes by which the peoples of the world incorporated into a single world society

·      Anthony Giddens, stated that globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occulting many miles away and vice versa

·      David Held, stated that globalization could be located on a continuum with the local, national and regional. However at the same time, globalization referred to those spatial-temporal process of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activity across regions and continents

·      Thomas Larsson, stated that globalization is the process of world shrinkage of distances getting shorter, things moving closer, and talked about increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact with somebody on the other side of the world

Based on Jan Aart Scholte statement, there are many definitions as well as types in globalizations:

·        Internationalization: Globalization defined as the increasing of international relations

·      Liberalization: Globalization also defined as the decreasing number of limitation within countries

·      Universalism: Globalization also defined as spreading either material or immaterial all around the world

·      Westernization: a form of universalism with spreading the thoughts and cultures from the west so it becomes global

Globalization also appeared in international relations. As we know, nations, people and cultures not only influence the international community, but also diplomats, politician and representatives must meet and deal with accordingly to the needs and wants of nations. In international relations, globalization concern about countries, people and organizations interact, and also making a profound effect. It also defined a new paradigm within world politics and economic relations.

Reference:  http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/pdf/participant-papers/2011-12-cdac/Globalization-and-International-Relations-Lianna-Amirkhanyan.pdf