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One tool that makes globalization so much easier is technology; especially the internet. Computer based communication through the internet and electronic mail makes everything faster, simpler and more efficient. Through the World Wide Web, anybody anywhere is able to put their views about virtually anything across. However, this creates a “digital divide” because not everybody has access to technology and it is not fair to exclude people from what goes on in the world just because they do not have computers or telephones.

CNN is another passageway for globalization. With the help of satellite technology, people can be informed of events in places like Iran as they happen. CNN is also able to reach out to even the most geographically inaccessible places of the world. This way, in an event of a disaster, help can be brought there immediately.

Globalization has increased the transmission of popular culture easily and inexpensively through radio stations and television channels such as MTV. However, despite efforts of nationally-based media to develop local television and talent, many media markets in countries of Asia, and Latin America are saturated with productions from the U.S., Europe and a few countries in Asia (especially Japan and India). Local critics of this trend lament not only the resulting silencing of domestic cultural expression, but also the entire world becoming too attached to western culture.