al thinking and reasoning. Instead of going to church and praying, people would think to themselves and come up with the answers to their problems.By nature, people live in a state of anxiety. People often mistake fear with anxiety, but they are actually very different. The difference between fear and anxiety is that with fear you know what you're afraid of, but with anxiety you don't. People go on the quest for certainty so they don't have anxiety over anything. When you are in a safe and stable place, you are very comfortable and you have no worries. The use of technology is very important in understanding the meaning of globalization. Because of technology we are able to communicate with people from different countries without even being in one another's presence. We are able to achieve this by talking on the phone, typing on the computer, or sending a fax. Technology helps us to shrink the space between us and shorten the amount of time we have to communicate. This is called the "time-space compression."In the book, "The Anthropology of Globalization," they define "time-space compression" as the manner in which the speeding up of economic and social processes has experientially shrunk the globe, so that distance and time no longer appear to be major constraints on the organization of human activity. For example, if we talk to someone from Ghana on the computer, we save so much time because we don't have to travel the distance to go there and communicate in person. Basically there is no distance between us and anyone else in the world anymore thanks to technology.There are five different types of cultural flows in terms of globalization. The first cultural flow is capital. For example, money is transferred throughout banks all across the world by different transactions. Another cultural flow is people. This can be seen by people traveling to anywhere in the world.The third cultural flow in globalization is commodities...
