What do you think the term global village means?
More and more often, the term global village is used to describe the world and its people. In a typical village, however, everyone knows everyone else and the people face the same kinds of problems. How can the world be village, when it is home to almost 6 billion people? Political and technological changes in the past century have made the global village possible.
Political changes the years after World War II seemed to promise peace and more equality among people. For example, the United Nations was founded in 1954 to help countries resolve dispute peacefully. This promise was soon shattered, however by the Cold War tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. These two superpowers were engaged in an arms race, spending huge sums of money on weapons. The other nations of the world were frozen in a perpetual state hostility, seemingly on the brink of destruction.
It was not until the collapse of communist government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991 that the Cold War ended and the political climate changed. The end of Cold War tension made the global village more politically possible by opening new channels of communication between nations.
Technological changes technologically, the greatest contributor to the global village is the microchip- an electronic circuit on a tiny chip. The microchip has made satellite and computers possible. These forms of high-tech communications allow news and ideas to travel quickly from country to country, making people aware of their neighbors around the globe in dramatic new ways.??What will happen if we moved into the twentieth century and beyond? Almost certainly the development of the global village will continue. Not only is this possible, but the challenges that the
world faces ? for example, pollution, population growth, and conflict among peoples ? will make it necessary.
