0 all the countries of the world when thought of as being closely connected by modern communication and trade:
1 the idea that the internet, modern travel, and modern ways of doing business make it possible to deal with the whole world as if all areas of it were local:
In a global village, major discrepancies in the world will not, in the longer term, be tolerated by the poorest section of the village.
One in five people who live in this global village still have no access to education or health care.
The fact is that we are now living in a global village, and that is no longer something that is capable of being changed.
We will all have to change a bit to live in a global village.
That is one of the problems of the global village.
People in developing countries belong more to the "global village" than they once did.
All these definitions and approaches are premised on one 'fact': that the world has become a 'global village'.
The global village is optimistically as well as pessimistically seen a kind of justifying framework - especially useful for organising a life within technological globality.
