- As humans in the early modern era from 1450 to 1800, founds out the importance of what they called “Navigation” and usage of the map in the vast oceans of the world and the continental parts of the world where they go on an expedition, they began to travel across the faraway lands that they visit for the first time, and they starts to exchange their goods to the native of the land in return they will receive food along their voyage and that’s what we called the early trading of humans and globalization starts its shape, way back in early modern era.
Circa 1520, A print of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521) discovering the path to the Pacific.
- On that time trading is known around the world and people began to travel across the globe to trade and make a living. But there comes the advantage and disadvantage of trading.
· Advantage it can be beneficial to certain traders and contributes a lot in the economy and the forming of the shape of globalization.
· Disadvantage of it, is it can be anything as long as it can exchange to what they will be dealing of and that’s actually the beginning of slavery on that time was very known, they capture the people specifically in Africa to become a slave and then start to ship across the world where it has high demand of slavery in the country. And that’s the dark side of trading and globalizing the world.
Photo from: Encyclopædia Britannica
On the other hand, lets proceed in the modern until the present era where globalization is on its peak, by the help of revolution and modernization we really come a long way and the discovering of the new technologies that helped to make the world even closer than ever via Internet and the advance technology available nowadays, products from around the world quickly transfer from one another and the usage of Outsourcing strategy to manufacture the product faster and cheaper to the level of the demand of the consumer across the world. And
that is practice by the other country to make deals in the neighboring or foreign countries. By means of it, they even start to influence each other in a cultural, political, and in a business practice.
- Therefore, heterogeneity is the lowkey responsible for that matter and it is part of globalization that starts forming the world by connecting and filling out the gaps of potential advancement that the world lacks during its past generation, and heterogeneity is inevitable practice that continuously growing around the world that involving the trend, culture and the other practices of a particular country that influence the other by the help of Internet connectivity, using any social media platforms that can connects one individual to the other part of the world.
· Image from: https://researchoutreach.org/articles/globalisation-through-post-colonialist-lens/
The result of Globalization is what we see around us in a daily basis, and we are part of it even if we don’t realize it’s right there. And it happens by the contribution and involvements of the other countries to make our living way easier, faster, and making it much better in a long run.
References
· The First Voyage around the World 1519–1522: An Account of Magellan's Expedition by Antonio Pigafetta
· Miers, Suzanne; Kopytoff, Igor (1979). Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-07334-3.
· https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade#/media/1/1913480/162801
· https://researchoutreach.org/articles/globalisation-through-post-colonialist-lens/
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