What's Globalization?
“Globalization is an unstoppable and potent force that impacts every life” says Patricia Mohr, a reporter specialized in international commerce and very interested in Globalization. We do agree with her. Globalization is known as the process of international integration originating from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. As Patricia says, it's impossible to stop this process. You see the consequences of Globalization everywhere you go, every day, even without realizing it. It not only impacts every life but also many aspects of our lives, if not almost all. We get up and start our day by eating some cereal produced in Spain, go to our school or work in our Japanese car, have lunch in some Amerian fast food restaurant and so on. This phenomenon plays such a big part in our routine that we dont even notice it. Globalization has been impelled by policies that have opened the countries' economies, adopting free-market economic systems, and also by the reductions in barriers to commerce and by international agreements that promote the trade of goods, services and investment. Thanks to all of this an international industrial and financial business structure was born. Technology has been, without a doubt, another huge driver of globalization. Thanks to the technological development that our world has witnessed, information is something that is easily shared with the whole world. The improvements in computer hardware, software and telecommunications and the creating and using of social networking (such as facebook, twitter, instagram) changed the way people use and share information for personal, polical and commercial purposes. We cannot make an essay about Globalization without mentioning the Internet, one of the major and evident proof that this phenomenon is here to stay. The Internet and the Web converted commerce, creating new ways for retailers and their customers to