Globalization informs a lot of day-to-day activities for business, communities and individuals. This impact cuts across different functions and activities. In order to understand impact of globalization on day-to-day activities, a closer contextualized reflection is required. For current purposes, my day-to-day activities are noted and analyzed in order to identify impact, if any, of globalization in contextualized day-to-day, personal, routine activities.
This brief reflection starts by a short list in a quasi journal form of day-to-day activities. This is followed by a reflection on noted activities. More broadly, implications of globalization's impact on my day-to-day activities are discussed.
Activities
Reflection
Based on above entries, author's day-to-day activities appear to be largely informed by computer and mobile communications. Indeed, one main influence of globalization on personal activities in different countries is on not only how people have come to communicate but also how frequent. Clearly, I rely heavily on my computer and cell phone for day-to-day communication with family and friends. Timing also stands out as a critical point of note. Indeed, I appear to have a fixed, daily ritual of checking her personal communication early on. This signifies, if anything, how social networks and mobility applications have come to be integrated into day-to-day activities world over.
There is also an issue of internationalization of education. The daily encounters and increasing number of international students on campus indicate, if anything, a growing pattern in international education, notably in U.S. Moreover, universities appear to depend increasingly on international students as an additional revenue source.
Implications
More broadly, growing patterns of communication using computer and mobile applications (all mediated by globalization) as well as internationalization of education represent, if anything, a major shift in how people perform day-to-day activities compared to periods on less connectivity. Specifically, people's increasing reliance on mediated devices and applications has enhanced communication and made immediacy a lingua franca in current communication patterns. On flipside, mediated communication has diminished role of "natural" (mainly, face-to-face) communication, a pattern making more and more people further isolated, if not alienated. Indeed, a growing body of research is confirming negative impact of extensive online communication. Similar to new innovations, more enhanced communication has, admittedly, increased pace and frequency of communication but has, meanwhile, reduced intimate and closer, face-to-face relationships.
As well, increasing mobility of people world over (particularly in countries showing strong economic growth in recent years, e.g. China and India), has made internationalization of education a growing pattern in many universities. This pattern, in addition to building character and enhancing personal experiences, represents a major shift in offering educational services. By catering for educational needs of more diverse student populations, colleges and universities are adapting gradually to new demands by different student sets. Notably, colleges and universities are redeveloping programs and instruction strategies in order to accommodate more globalized needs.
In a final analysis, globalization is an ongoing process. The ripples of more globalized activities (rendering daily activities increasingly similar globally) are still produced and continue to inform more activities globally as more nations join in.
