GWguy
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> A definition of globalization that even I can understand and to which I now can relate:
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> Question :
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> What is the truest definition of Globalization ?
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> Answer :
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> Princess Diana's death.
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>
> Question :
> How come?
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>
>
> Answer :
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>
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> An
> English Princess
> with an
> Egyptian boyfriend
>
> crashes
> in a French tunnel,
> riding in a
>
> German
> car
>
> with a
> Dutch engine,
>
> driven
> by a Belgian
>
> who was
> drunk
>
> on
> Scottish whiskey,
>
> (check the bottle before you
> change the spelling),
>
> followed
> closely by
>
> Italian
> Paparazzi,
>
> on
> Japanese motorcycles,
>
> treated
> by an American doctor,
> using
>
> Brazilian
> medicines.
>
> This is
> sent to you by
>
> a
> Canadian,
>
> using
>
> American
> Steve Jobs' technology,
>
> and
> you're probably reading
> this on your computer,
>
> that
> uses Taiwanese chips,
> and
>
> a
>
> Korean
> monitor,
>
> assembled
> by
>
> Bangladeshi
> workers
>
> in a
> Singapore plant,
>
> transported
> by Indian
>
> truck drivers,
>
> hijacked
> by Indonesians,
>
> unloaded by
> Sicilian longshoremen,
>
> and
>
> trucked to you by Mexicans who
>
> are in the US illegally
>
> because
>
> the current president,
>
> born in Kenya
>
> and educated as a Muslim in Indonesia
>
> refuses to enforce US law.
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>
>
>
>
>
> That, my friends, is Globalization !
>
> A definition of globalization that even I can understand and to which I now can relate:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Question :
>
> What is the truest definition of Globalization ?
>
> Answer :
>
> Princess Diana's death.
>
>
>
> Question :
> How come?
>
>
>
> Answer :
>
>
>
> An
> English Princess
> with an
> Egyptian boyfriend
>
> crashes
> in a French tunnel,
> riding in a
>
> German
> car
>
> with a
> Dutch engine,
>
> driven
> by a Belgian
>
> who was
> drunk
>
> on
> Scottish whiskey,
>
> (check the bottle before you
> change the spelling),
>
> followed
> closely by
>
> Italian
> Paparazzi,
>
> on
> Japanese motorcycles,
>
> treated
> by an American doctor,
> using
>
> Brazilian
> medicines.
>
> This is
> sent to you by
>
> a
> Canadian,
>
> using
>
> American
> Steve Jobs' technology,
>
> and
> you're probably reading
> this on your computer,
>
> that
> uses Taiwanese chips,
> and
>
> a
>
> Korean
> monitor,
>
> assembled
> by
>
> Bangladeshi
> workers
>
> in a
> Singapore plant,
>
> transported
> by Indian
>
> truck drivers,
>
> hijacked
> by Indonesians,
>
> unloaded by
> Sicilian longshoremen,
>
> and
>
> trucked to you by Mexicans who
>
> are in the US illegally
>
> because
>
> the current president,
>
> born in Kenya
>
> and educated as a Muslim in Indonesia
>
> refuses to enforce US law.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> That, my friends, is Globalization !