| Globalization. What is it really? when did it start? Who | | | | offered them to her as a gift, she couldn't very well |
| participates in it? Is it good? Is it bad? Do you need | | | | refuse them. So she had carried them home with her |
| to fight it? Do you need to embrace it? How can we | | | | but she didn't really have a use for them. |
| reduce such a seeming large subject to a small | | | | Or did she? |
| article? Well, let's see. | | | | Now that she had the dung she needed for her fire, |
| Globalization began when the first human being made | | | | she could cook the meat the others of her own |
| a trek from her own camp to the next one. She | | | | camp had brought back from the hunt. The hunters |
| needed to go there to borrow a measure of animal | | | | had been extremely fortunate in their last hunting |
| dung to get her fire started again. Before she started | | | | effort and they had much more meat then they |
| on this trek, she decided to take a gift in trade for | | | | could use for now. She knew she could dry some of |
| the animal dung. She took some red berries which | | | | the meat and keep it for later when the cold |
| only grew near her camp and not near the camp she | | | | weather made hunting more difficult. After her return |
| was about to visit. But she knew that the inhabitants | | | | from the neighboring camp, she discovered that the |
| of the other camp would really like the berries. So | | | | black pebbles got very hot as they lay in the sun. |
| she arrived bearing her gift. | | | | She reasoned that she could use these hot black |
| When she arrived at the neighboring camp and | | | | pebbles to help her dry her extra meat more quickly. |
| presented them with the berries, they were happy | | | | So that is what she did. She let the black pebbles |
| to give her the measure of animal dung she needed. | | | | heat up in the sun, laid strips of her meat on the |
| They actually had too much at that point and needed | | | | pebbles and let the pebbles with the meat on them |
| to get rid of some. And they were delighted with the | | | | lie in the sun. The sun dried the meat from the top |
| gift of berries she had for them for they had no | | | | and the pebbles dried it from the bottom. And she |
| such berries in the vicinity of their own camp. In | | | | was able to dry and store a great deal more meat |
| return for the berries and for her taking some of | | | | for the winter than she had been able to in the past. |
| their dung, they also gave her some of the lovely | | | | And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the first known |
| black pebbles they had dug up when they made their | | | | example of globalization. |
| fire pits. They had no more use for the pebbles and | | | | So it seems to me that globalization could be a good |
| it would be helpful to be rid of them. Also, their | | | | thing if the things we are trading with each other all |
| visitor had admired them as she sipped tea with her | | | | around the globe or even just with our neighbors in |
| hosts. | | | | the next camp or country are things that we can all |
| So along with the animal dung which she had come | | | | make good use of. Globalization has been going on |
| to borrow, our human returned to her camp with | | | | for a very long time and isn't likely to stop soon. |
| some pretty black pebbles. When she originally | | | | Instead of trying to stop globalization, maybe we |
| admired the pebbles back at the other camp, she | | | | would be better off looking for ways to stop the |
| hadn't really wanted them; but when her hosts | | | | greed that sometimes comes with it. |