Global Village

Chapter 12 discussed an interesting topic of “global village”. I found this topic interesting due to the fact that the book stated that the world is shrinking due to the ease of intercultural communication via internet, facility of travel, and etc. I agree that it in order to be successful in this new world, understanding and knowledge about other cultures is important. The cross among cultures is a lot more common and learning how to communicate and interact with people is important. After living my whole life in the bay area, among so many different types of people, different cultures, languages and etc, living in Mexico for three years was extremely odd to me in that the homogenous nature of the country. It was odd to me to go to Costco and see everyone of the same race, culture, and everyone looked similar. After a while it became monotonous and boring in a way. Additionally, the internet is not as widely available like it is here in the U.S.