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Traditionally Livelihoods Threatened by Globalization

With the process of globalization today, the world is becoming more and more of a global marketplace. With the technological advances in transportation, resulting in possibility of traveling anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, and communication, people can instantly communicate all over the world through telecommunications and the internet. All of this results in constant expansion in every possible direction. Companies are expanding to opposite ends of the globe and individuals are traveling further and more often. In return, this causes intermingling of cultures, many times resulting in much animosity on the part of the natives.
This is not done only by big corporations, whom build huge factories in small villages, that are poverty stricken areas of the world. This is also done in subtle ways where the people may not notice that there is a problem at first. At first it may seem as a blessing, but only after the problem has been brewing for several weeks, months, o...

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