| Global Village is a term closely associated with the | | | | technology excludes all those who have no access to |
| world that has been contracted into a village by | | | | Internet and unable to comprehend international |
| electric technology and the instantaneous movement | | | | languages like English. Therefore, the concept of |
| of information from every quarter to every point at | | | | oneness has lost. The second is the corruption and |
| the same time. | | | | fraud from which no one has immunity. Moreover, |
| Today, the term "Global Village" is mostly used as a | | | | the other side of the coin is the over-powering of |
| phrase to describe the Internet and World Wide | | | | information and its abuse by nations that are masters |
| Web. Such that the physical distance is of no | | | | and the rest would be slaves. Thus this would result |
| hindrance to the real-time communicative activities of | | | | in imbalance of access to natural and human |
| people, therefore social domains are greatly | | | | resources, global-economy and will results in fragile |
| expanded by the openness of the web and the ease | | | | eco-system. Therefore, the modern communicative |
| at which people can search for info online and | | | | technology does not truly promote a cohesive Global |
| interact with others that share the same interests or | | | | Village concept in its true essence as was perceived |
| background(s). It is evident from the emergence of | | | | by those in favour. But this would rather accelerate |
| cosmopolitan culture and loss of demarcation | | | | interdependence among nations and a rat race to |
| between countries. Hence gives a perception of | | | | control the flow of information and resources by the |
| world as a global community. | | | | superpower(s). It can be clearly seen that |
| As the world grows smaller, events in one area have | | | | globalisation has made rich richer and the poor poorer. |
| a larger impact on other parts of the world. There is | | | | Underdeveloped nations have suffered greatly. They |
| no concept of national borders. Even poverty in | | | | are faced with the crisis of cultural identity. These |
| some areas affects other areas because of migration | | | | nations are such which are unable to make the right |
| and its impact on the world economy. The | | | | choice because of their inability due to poverty and |
| globalisation has impacted positively in rapid | | | | hunger. |
| information access e.g., environmental awareness that | | | | It is a human nature that only a tribe can be |
| has contributed to positive environmental outcomes | | | | intimately linked that have a common belief otherwise |
| by encouraging the use of more efficient | | | | people with different backgrounds or beliefs have |
| technologies for use in place of scarce domestic | | | | trouble living together harmoniously even though if |
| natural resources, created big market which leads to | | | | we work towards the image of a unified global village |
| big profits, more opportunities for jobs, outsourcing | | | | we would still lose an individual identity in the long run. |
| but it is also accompanied with drawbacks as well. | | | | Therefore, in reality "Global Village" holds no standing |
| One of the major drawbacks is the fact that this | | | | as it was foreseen. |