Globalization - It"s Origins and Purposes

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Globalization.
What is it really? when did it start? Who participates in it? Is it good? Is it bad? Do you need to fight it? Do you need to embrace it? How can we reduce such a seeming large subject to a small article? Well, let's see.
Globalization began when the first human being made a trek from her own camp to the next one.
She needed to go there to borrow a measure of animal dung to get her fire started again.
Before she started on this trek, she decided to take a gift in trade for the animal dung.
She took some red berries which only grew near her camp and not near the camp she was about to visit.
But she knew that the inhabitants of the other camp would really like the berries.
So she arrived bearing her gift.
When she arrived at the neighboring camp and presented them with the berries, they were happy to give her the measure of animal dung she needed.
They actually had too much at that point and needed to get rid of some.
And they were delighted with the gift of berries she had for them for they had no such berries in the vicinity of their own camp.
In return for the berries and for her taking some of their dung, they also gave her some of the lovely black pebbles they had dug up when they made their fire pits.
They had no more use for the pebbles and it would be helpful to be rid of them.
Also, their visitor had admired them as she sipped tea with her hosts.
So along with the animal dung which she had come to borrow, our human returned to her camp with some pretty black pebbles.
When she originally admired the pebbles back at the other camp, she hadn't really wanted them; but when her hosts offered them to her as a gift, she couldn't very well refuse them.
So she had carried them home with her but she didn't really have a use for them.
Or did she? Now that she had the dung she needed for her fire, she could cook the meat the others of her own camp had brought back from the hunt.
The hunters had been extremely fortunate in their last hunting effort and they had much more meat then they could use for now.
She knew she could dry some of the meat and keep it for later when the cold weather made hunting more difficult.
After her return from the neighboring camp, she discovered that the black pebbles got very hot as they lay in the sun.
She reasoned that she could use these hot black pebbles to help her dry her extra meat more quickly.
So that is what she did.
She let the black pebbles heat up in the sun, laid strips of her meat on the pebbles and let the pebbles with the meat on them lie in the sun.
The sun dried the meat from the top and the pebbles dried it from the bottom.
And she was able to dry and store a great deal more meat for the winter than she had been able to in the past.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the first known example of globalization.
So it seems to me that globalization could be a good thing if the things we are trading with each other all around the globe or even just with our neighbors in the next camp or country are things that we can all make good use of.
Globalization has been going on for a very long time and isn't likely to stop soon.
Instead of trying to stop globalization, maybe we would be better off looking for ways to stop the greed that sometimes comes with it.
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