“There is no such thing as a remote place in a globalized world and this impacts indigenous societie

In the past few decades numbers of remote places decreased significantly. The process of globalisation indeed decreased numbers of remote places in the world, improvements in both transportation and communication technology has led to interdependence between countries and becoming more "globalized". However there are still remote places exist today, such as the Amazon rain forest. The statement "There is no such thing as a remote place in a globalized world and this impacts indigenous societies." may be true, but it depends on the definition of "globalized world". Some critics argues that the current world is not "globalized", rather it is "internationalized".

If the statement is true, the current situation of the world would not be a "globalized" world. Since many people argues that "internationalization" is a process before globalization, and internationalisation stands for "the extension of economic activities across national boundaries". This best describes the situation, which the international division of labour, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Trans-National Corporations (TNCs), occurring and taking place around the world. The word "globalisation" would not be the best word to describes, not only in the aspect of economy, but in other aspects such as culture. The word "global" means " one whole world", which can include the meaning such as united as one world. Throughout the human history, humans has developed into diverse and unique culture customs which differentiate from the others. If a world is truly globalised the culture of the world should be converging into one culture, rather than diverse. However, increasingly governments are putting more efforts in terms of protecting culture, especially the indigenous culture. This would be the act of not moving towards to truly "globalised" world.

In order to protect indigenous culture within the country, governments set National Parks protecting those areas from being exploited into farm lands, industrial area, etc. Especially indigenous people in the Amazon rain-forest, many tribes in Amazon rain forest haven't contact the modern society for hundreds of years. However the increasing "internationalised" world, Amazon rain-forest have been used for other purposes such as soybean farms in order to keep up with the international demand of soybeans. Amazonian rain forest contains rich natural resources, so increasingly people are entering the rain forest and exploiting for their purposes. This caused some tribes forced out of rain forest and forced to make contacts with the modern world, this leads to cultural convergence to certain extent. Such as from naked to wearing modern clothing, getting flu, new farming practices, adoption of modern life style. All these are making their original cultural to converge with the modern society and slowly losing their culture.

The government efforts of protecting the indigenous culture are one of the factors that's stopping from the process of moving towards truly "globalized" world. In a truly globalized world, there would be no such thing called "remote places", unless people argues the current situation of the world is already "globalised'. As the Information Communication Technology (ICT), and transportation develops. The time it takes travelling from one place to another decreases, as well as the cost of travel decreases. Through the ICT, distance between two places seem to be less important. Increasingly people are exposed into different culture, such as going to another country for travel, to experience their unique culture, that's different from your own. To experience the true culture of a country, people often visits places that are comparatively remote places within the country, such as the cultural core within the country. Remote places are places where there's far away from major cities and villages. These places are where the most unaffected culture of the country can be found. If there were no national parks protecting the environment and those indigenous homes, it will no longer be a "remote" place, with well protected culture and small extent of blend into the modern society. Especially, nowadays there isn't enough lands to be farm and to live due to over population.

The world will most likely not be truly "globalised", because of government efforts of protecting the culture, which often locates in the remote place. Thus, if a world is truly "globalised", most likely cultures are converged into one single culture, with some distinction between, but mostly the same. At the same time probably most of people are using "common language" for communication. As the current world shows, more cities are homogenising, so if truly "globalised" world to be happen, the landscape would likely to be homogenise, as what major cities of countries are.