01 METAPHORS OF GLOBALIZATION

Solidity

refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things.

It can either be: Natural – e.g. Landforms and bodies of water man-made – e.g. great wall of China, the Berlin Wall and nine-dash line.

Liquidity

Refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the contemporary World.

Flows

are the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing “porosity” of global limitations (Ritzer, 2015).

E.g. foreign cuisines consumed by Filipinos and global financial crises

Heavy

It is characterized by that which is difficult to move. •

Because of their heaviness, workers tended to stay put and what they produced could be moved only with great effort and at great expense.

E.g. books, crops, machine, automobile.

Light

Goods and people that are easier or lighter to move because of advances especially in technology.

E.g. compare the netbook computer of today to the room-size computer of the mid-twentieth century.