Globalization
refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy.Globalization
Globalization
refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy.
Source: Hill, Charles W. L. Global Business Today, 3rd ed. Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin: New York, 2004.
In an increasingly globalized world, it is necessary to promote cultural diversity as a valuable asset and as one of the main tools for preventing and resolving conflicts. The right to a plurality of cultures must guarantee the right to live in a culturally rich environment, one characterized by reciprocal knowledge and mutual respect among people and groups of diverse backgrounds, languages, religions and cultures.
Source: http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/documentos/ficha.cfm?idDoc=2867
Facts about Globalization:
Cultural diversity places emphasis on the rights of indigenous peoples and recognizes their distinct characteristics that will allow them to benefit fully from their cultural, intellectual, and natural resources.
Globalization is not only an economic process, but also includes, among other things, technology, human rights, and communication.
Globalization is leading to increased multiculturalism at the world, state, and local levels.
Globalization simultaneously causes inclusion and exclusion through networks. These networks, governed by prevailing criteria, include everything that has economic value and exclude that which, according to the same criteria, does not.
Globalization responds to recent demographic and global changes and anticipates future cultural shifts in the workplace.
Globalization as a process and a resource is leveraged.
The reality of globalization is the construction of identity and institutional treatment of the relation between globalization and identity within the framework of the diversity of cultures and institutions in the world
Sources:
http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/documentos/ficha.cfm?idDoc=2867
http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/documentos/ficha.cfm?idDoc=1700
Facts about World Languages:
There are over 6,000 languages in the world.
Only 4% of the languages are used by 96% of the world's population.
50% of the world languages are in danger of extinction.
90% of the world's languages are not represented on the Internet.
Source: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11605&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html