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Have a look at the clothes you're wearing today.

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What do you think they have been produced?

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What about the electronic device you're using just now?

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Where has it been manufactured?

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And what about the food that you eat?

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Where has it been grown?

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If you think about it for a minute, you'll see that many of the products that you use

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come from abroad, from very distant parts of the world.

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They travel many thousands of kilometers to find you before you buy them.

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And this does not only happen with products, it also happens with services,

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because you can see online films or TV series that have been produced in a very distant place.

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Of course, nations have always been in contact through trade,

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But in the last decades, the interconnection between different parts of the world has been

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so intense, due to the increase in the efficiency of transport and communications, that we really

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live in a different era, in an interconnected world where we are all interdependent.

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This process of growing interconnection and interdependency is what we call globalization.

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Is globalization a positive or a negative phenomenon?

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Globalization has obvious benefits.

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For example, it increases prosperity, because it fosters trade and economic growth.

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But it also has drawbacks.

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For example, economic growth has not been the same in every country in the world.

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Rich countries benefit a lot from globalization, much more than poor countries.

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So even though every country in the world can grow because of globalization, some of

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them grow more than others and inequalities increase.

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Another problem of globalization is the cultural homogenization of the world.

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This means that today different parts of the world have lost diversity and they have similar

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ways of living.

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For example, the way we dress, the kind of music we listen to, or the films we watch

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are very similar everywhere in the world.

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That didn't happen in the past, so we have lost a rich diversity of ways of living because

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of globalization.

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In the process of globalization, media play a key role.

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In the past, people learned about what happened in the world through newspapers, listening

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to the radio or watching TV, but today social networks play a key role in the dissemination

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of news, and this is also positive and negative at the same time.

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The use of social networks and the democratization of information makes it possible for any citizen

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to become a journalist and to broadcast online what is happening in their neighborhood or

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in the city. For example, they can protest against violations of human rights, but it

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also makes possible to spread content that violates human rights and that doesn't respect

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minorities. As you are very well aware of, fake news are a very important issue today,

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and they appear in social networks and also in traditional media sometimes. So what should

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we do about this. From an ethical point of view, media should be subject to some rules

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in order to grant that they are truthful, that they don't spread lies. Of course, there

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are legal limits to what media can do, because the law forbids telling lies and punishes

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people who spread information that is incorrect.

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But beyond legal limits, there should also be ethical limits,

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meaning that people should morally take into account what is right and what is not right to do.

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Moreover, citizens should exercise their responsibility while using social networks,

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being aware that what they do has real impact on the life of other people and on our world.