On globalization
Q: What is the most concrete example of globalization?
A: With all respect to Lady Diana, the answer is : her death.
Q: Why is so?
A:
Lady Diana was a Briton whose boyfriend was an Egyptian. She had an accident in a tunnel in France while riding a German car with a Dutch machine. The driver was a Belgian who got drunk of Scott whiskey. When the accident happened, the Princess was hunted by paparazzi from Italy who rode a Japanese made motorbike. Before she died, she was treated by an American doctor with drugs produced in Brazil.
This writing was initially made by an Armenian using Bill Gate technology. You are reading this posting, most likely using one of some IBM/COMPAQ/HP/Toshiba/Dell/Mac products installed with a chip made in Taiwan and a monitor made in Korea assembled by Filipino labors in Singapore. They were shipped by Indian cargo and installed with softwares pirated by Indonesian. And now you are using it.
p.s. modified and translated from Indonesian version shared by mas Barens, thanks 
Besides popular figure such as Lady Diana, and popular culture such as music & film. Globalization strongly related to clothing, such as secret of used cloth :
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue3/0306p33.htm
http://www.unpac.ca/economy/g_clothes.html
Global-universal language that I like is SMILING
mer: thanks for the links. about smiling, yes of course it’s a global universal language. it existed even before globalization of anything started.
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Well, the sun is shining brightly over out happy global village- in a manner of speaking.
However. Never mind the packing.
Because globalization is also an euphemism for economic colonization, exploitation of the poor and the environment as well as the colossal & offensive accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of relatively few – those who always seem to manage not to be held accountable for any of their deeds.
Pffffft. Keep your temper, Colson.
mer: you statement is valid. indeed, some forms are embedded in the colonization, exploitation, concentration of wealth, etc, etc. but there’re some forms of globalization that that different paths… global justice movement, for example.. and how about this: the globalization of anti-globalization movement….
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And like so, what is the most complex example of localization?
. I’ve written the (another) answer to this here, for a joke, I think.
Thanks for sharing this, Prof.
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mer: haha, thank you for sharing your localization sample
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Very funny
) All apply to me, except for the Indonesian pirated softwares. 
mer: haha. are you sure? never ever use pirated softwares?
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“mer: haha. are you sure? never ever use pirated softwares?
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That’s not what I meant. I bought this computer in Australia with Windows XP installed. Then a friend installed some programs using his CD. Whether or not the softwares were pirated, I don’t know for sure
mer: haha… ok..ok… ignorance is a bliss
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