Global Village

Global Village is a term closely associated with thetechnology excludes all those who have no access to
world that has been contracted into a village byInternet and unable to comprehend international
electric technology and the instantaneous movementlanguages like English.  Therefore, the concept of
of information from every quarter to every point atoneness 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 athe other side of the coin is the over-powering of
phrase to describe the Internet and World Wideinformation and its abuse by nations that are masters
Web. Such that the physical distance is of noand the rest would be slaves. Thus this would result
hindrance to the real-time communicative activities ofin imbalance of access to natural and human
people, therefore social domains are greatlyresources, global-economy and will results in fragile
expanded by the openness of the web and the easeeco-system. Therefore, the modern communicative
at which people can search for info online andtechnology does not truly promote a cohesive Global
interact with others that share the same interests orVillage concept in its true essence as was perceived
background(s). It is evident from the emergence ofby those in favour. But this would rather accelerate
cosmopolitan culture and loss of demarcationinterdependence among nations and a rat race to
between countries. Hence gives a perception ofcontrol 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 haveglobalisation has made rich richer and the poor poorer.
a larger impact on other parts of the world. There isUnderdeveloped nations have suffered greatly. They
no concept of national borders. Even poverty inare faced with the crisis of cultural identity. These
some areas affects other areas because of migrationnations are such which are unable to make the right
and its impact on the world economy. Thechoice because of their inability due to poverty and
globalisation has impacted positively in rapidhunger.
information access e.g., environmental awareness thatIt is a human nature that only a tribe can be
has contributed to positive environmental outcomesintimately linked that have a common belief otherwise
by encouraging the use of more efficientpeople with different backgrounds or beliefs have
technologies for use in place of scarce domestictrouble living together harmoniously even though if
natural resources, created big market which leads towe work towards the image of a unified global village
big profits, more opportunities for jobs, outsourcingwe 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 thisas it was foreseen.