What lasting legacies of early modern globalization are evident in the early 21st century?

I think
that one legacy that globalization has given, even as this century's early moment, is the idea
of "the rest."  For so long, the political and economic focus of the world's attention
was on "the West."  America and the European nations were the focal point of the
world's attention.  This was where commercial progress found its center.  Globalization has
developed a new setting where "the rise of the rest" became the norm.  Countries like
Brazil, India, and China emerged as global competitors and took much of the focus away from one
area of the world and spread it out.  This helped to establish the "flat world," in
which advances in technology made the world much closer than it originally seemed.  The result
of this is an interchanging of economic partners, almost to a point where globalization impacts
nearly every aspect of our being.  Borders on a map have become not as important as the need to
overcome geographic distinction.  When customer service is dialed from...

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