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Globalization: The Flattening Force, originally uploaded by bgkitching.

Globalization can not be illustrated by only one picture, just as one definition cannot summarize the whole of globalization. This collage touches on some of the main aspects of globalization.

One of the most striking parts of my collage is the flattening of the globe into a two dimensional map of the world. It is placed in the middle of the collage due to its importance. Globalization is clearly making the world smaller and more interconnected. The arrows are the forces compressing the flat world; the arrows are globalization.

Corporations are also another big theme in my collage. This is because corporations are one of the major forces driving globalization. Corporations laid the cables which have digitally connected the world, as well as branched themselves to all corners of the globe. Corporations are connecting and spreading cultures throughout the world.

Technology is the root of all globalization, without innovation people and ideas would be isolated. Therefore computers and cables should rightly be part of my collage.

Politics control corporations to a large extent, and therefore influence globalization. I placed the UN and European Union in my collage to represent the power of politics over globalization.

My collage also contains a United States navy ship launching a missile. Political stability allows globalization to prosper, war can largely stagnate globalization.

Lastly, I placed an oil rig in my collage to represent the resources being exhausted as a result of globalization. I feel that the depletion of natural resources may become a huge factor in the slowing of globalization. How would the world respond to the total consumption of all the earth’s oil reservations?