Glocalization
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Glocalization or glocalisation is the "simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems". The concept "represents a
Starbucks in Forbidden City, China
Globalization
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Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. It can be attributed to a series of f
Glocalization
…Glocalization or glocalisation (a portmanteau of globalization and localism) is the "simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic…
Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th-century Japanese Nanban art
Native New World crops exchanged globally (clockwise): Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco
Lisbon in the 1570s had many Africans due to the Atlantic slave trade.
The 1843 launch of the Great Britain, the revolutionary ship of Isambard Kingdom Brunel