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Globalization:  It's funny to mecalling a 800 number for product customer service line and the person that answers is halfway across the world. I think to myself how can you help me halfway across the world? That's surely a sign of globalization.  Thanks to technology things happen quicker and can reach millions with a push of a button. "Technology also contributed to the acceleration of economic globalization. Containerized shipping, huge oil tankers, an air express services dramatically lowered transportation costs, while fiber optic cables and later the internet provided the communication infrastructure for global economic interaction." (Strayer 1139). This is our modern day silk & sea roads. Products are reaching an abundant amount of people fast. As technology grows its goal is to make life easier & run smoother but sometimes it doesn't work out. For example, since we as Americans have a lot of our manufacturers overseas if there's a glitch in the system it makes it harder to receive our products. Another argument is the outsourcing takes spikes the unemployment rates.  If a manufactor desides to move overseas, then the current employees are out of luck.