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“What would a universal society be like which would have no particular country, which would be neither French nor English, nor German, nor Spanish, nor Portuguese, nor Italian, nor Russian, nor Tartar, nor Turkish, nor Persian, nor Indian, nor Chinese, nor American, or rather which would be all of these societies at the same time? What would be the consequence for its customs, its sciences, its arts, its poetry? How would people express emotions that are felt at the same time, but in different ways by different nations in different climates? How would the language incorporate this confusion of needs and images? . . . And what would that language be? Would the fusion of societies result in a universal idiom, or would there be a dialect of transactions serving daily usage, while each nation spoke its own language, or would different languages rather be understood by everyone? Under what similar rule, under what single law would this society exist? How is one to find a place in a world which is made larger by the power of ubiquitousness; and made smaller by the little proportions of a globe which is everywhere polluted? All that will be left will be to demand that science find a way of changing planets."
The author of this passage was the French writer and diplomat Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, writing in 1841.
While I studied in Nigeria, I took a class entitled ‘Globalization’. As you can imagine, globalization is an elaborate complex that would take years of study to fully understand, but that one semester forever shaped the way in which I view globalization. But from an economic standpoint, the current period of globalization that we are experiencing is not nearly as drastic as in previous epochs. Not one single Nigerian thought that globalization was a good thing, it was simply a part of life.
While increased technology has allowed for increased communication across oceans, I can’t help but wonder if we have forever ruined what ‘community’ means. No longer are we dependent on our neighbors for conversation, we can just call up our friends in Turkey for a chat. But what happens when WWIII breaks out, and we manage to reverse globalization (which is in fact a huge possibility)? Is that ‘nature’ proving the cycle?

*quote taken from Emma Rothschild's "Globalization and the Return of History"