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GE 3:The
Contemporary
World
Hope Arren M. Piineda
GE 3 Instructor
 We are now living in the 21st century- the
Contemporary World. Globalization is by-word of the
time. Gone are the days when we just confine ourselves
to what is "local" - focusing only our goods, services, and
other resources. Times have changed- and these
changes are so rapid that we have to catch up with the
changing time.
As we look beyond our steps, we meet many
challenges along the way- those in business, education,
health, science and technology, and other new fields of
endeavor. We just cannot close our eyes but we need to
respond to these challenges because they have an
impact to our lives, to the community, and in the country
where we are doing our activities. If we don’t step up to
all these challenges of globalization NOW-then, WHEN?
WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
 It is the process in which
people, ideas and goods
spread throughout the
world, urging more
interaction and integration
between the world's
cultures, governments and
economies.
OTHER DEFINITIONS
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is the increasing
interaction people, It is the
states or countries It refers to countries interconnectedness of
through the growth of llike magnets attracting people and business is a very important
the international flow of global capital by opening across the world that change, if not, the “most
money, ideas, and up their economies to eventually lead to important” (Bauman,
culture. Thus, multinational global, cultural, political 2003)
globalization primarily corporations. and economic
focused on economic integration
process of integration
that has social cultural
aspect
 THE GLOBAL
AGE
refers to period of time when there is a prevailing
sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings,
of common fate for the human species and of a threat
to its life on this Earth.
 Mass media also allows for conections
among people, communities, and
countries all over the globe.

Internet allows a person to know what

is happening to the rest of the world
simply by browsing
 Economic globalization
refers to the increasing interdependence
of world economies as a result of the
growing scale of cross-border trade of
commodities and services, flow of
international capital and wide and rapid
spread of technologies.
 Political globalization
refers to the growth of the
worldwide political system, both in
size and complexity. The creation
and existence of United Nations
has been called one of the classic
examples of globalization
 refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings,
and values around the world in such a way as
Cultural to extend and intensify social relations.

globalizationconsumption of
This process is marked by the common
cultures that have been
diffused by the internet, popular culture
media, and international trave