'Glocalization' is a controversial process and seemingly would be opposed to by the Radicals/Marxists as in George Ritzer's thesis of "The McDonaldization of Society" he describes 'McDonaldization' as "the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world." ... The study showed that close to 2.1 billion of the world's population were overweight or obese last year. ...

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According to Jeffery Sachs "in 1980 about one-quarter of the world's population and half of global production was linked by trade. Two decades later, almost 90 per cent of the world's population is so linked". ... Furthermore, it is essential to note that politicians around the world have encouraged integration through various international agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union which were designed to reduce trade barriers. ... According to Menard "Canada's economic globalization has really meant greater integration with and...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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