Perhaps it is precisely because in contemporary times there has been an acceleration in the progress of technology and communication that the concept of globalization is brought to the forefront of attention, and therefore it is much more widely discussed. However, as defined in this essay, globalization is not whether or not the world is globalized, but whether it is globalizing. Clearly the above-mentioned examples of economies, culture and technology becoming globalized, such as the compression of space and time, are in themselves proof that globalization is not really a