METAPHORS OF

GLOBALIZATION
METAPHORS
– are term used to help us
better understand another
term.
– symbols or signs
1. SOLID
– refers to the barriers that
prevent or make difficult to
the movement of people,
things and information.
– Solids can either be natural or
man-made.
*examples of natural solids are
landforms and bodies of water
*examples of man-made solids
are Great wall of China and
2. LIQUID
– are not fixed, it takes the
shape of its container.
– refers to the increasing ease
to the movement of people,
things, information and
– Liquid could be characterized as;
a. quickly change or fluctuate,
simply means that space and time
are crucial elements of globalization.
ex. In global finance, for instance,
changes in the stock market are a
matter of seconds.
– Liquid could be characterized as;
b. environment is difficult to stop.

ex. Videos uploaded on YouTube or

Facebook are unstoppable once they
become viral not only in their
homeland but also in the entire
– Liquid could be characterized as;
c. tend to melt, meaning
globalization is open to the forces
that is permeable to the flow of
people, things, information and
places.
ex. push and pull influences, decline
3. FLOWS
– refers to the movement of
people, things, places and
information brought about by
the growing global limitation.
ex. foods introduced to us by foreign
culture; virtual flow of legal and illegal
information; illegal migrants flooding in
many parts of the world; Filipino
communities abroad and Chinese
communities in the Philippines.