WHY THE WORLD IS SAID TO BE A GLOBAL VILLAGE

 

A global village, as defined by the oxford dictionary is the world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications. One can communicate over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone or broadcasting. Also known as world village, it is the societal, cultural and community effects of telecommunications, and is often used as a metaphor to describe the Internet and the World Wide Web.

It has an increased speed of communication and the ability of people to read about, spread, and reacts to global news quickly, it has forced us to become more involved with one another from various social groups and countries around the world and to be more aware of our global responsibilities.

It is a fact that you can communicate with anyone with an access to the Internet nowadays and you can watch any conceivable news station, you can share opinions and do other things...We are informed in real time about some far away disaster or war, about other humans sufferings, about terrorist acts and everything else. All said: this is a global village in which the media and the journalists are trying to bring us together as well as the scientists and the politicians.

Rapid communication over large distances and the same with transport of goods has in a economic sense created a global village. In a social sense it is a village in which, ar best no-one knows their neighbors and at worst, backstabbing and robbing your neighbors is the norm

It means we are so much in contact with each other through the Web that it was like living in a village 100 years ago. The world is so connected these days. It now looks like we're all being brought back together.

Technology has made things become globalised. Everything is now done online, businesses, education, shopping, chatting etc. this has also made people break cultural norms. Take the people from the Arab world, they were the reserved type of people, they only talked to people they knew and had something in common with i.e. sharing the same interests. But since the advent of technology, they have been brought to limelight, they talk to people the way they want even if they don’t know the person.

Technology has also made things easy and faster. Take for example you want to send a message to someone on the other end of the world, you don’t need to write a letter, go to the post office, buy stamp and post the letter, and wait for the reply whenever it comes. Now you only need to pick up your phone or laptop, type your message and just click send!