This chapter highlights the differences between cultures. What are our similarities?

There are about seven billion of us cohabiting this Earth today. What are the common pan-cultural concerns and issues that affect us collectively and as world citizens?

Define globalization as you understand it. What is the history of globalization in your culture? How does this phenomenon affect your life, personally and professionally? Now pick a foreign country of your choice and research how globalization started affecting that country. For example, one of our authors who grew up in India in the 1990s watching the only national television channel, Doordarshan, associates globalization with the sudden influx of tens of international cable channels on Indian television.