Transformationalists believe that although significant change is occurring in national cultures; there is evidence that the changes are “more nuanced or contradictory” than internationalists or globalists believed (Mackay, 2004). Finally, globalists advance the idea that the process is “real and tangible” and that national borders show less disparity between them. Globalists point to four key concepts to justify their findings; tense social relations, intensification of flows, growing interpenetration and promotion of global infrastructures. The concept of extended social relations suggests that a common cultural, economic and political process is expanding beyond regionalization and is, in fact, having a significant impact on the entire world. The intensification of flows suggests that interconnecting networks have increased. For example, communications have increased thanks to the advent of the Internet; and “global infrastructure” refers to the formal and informal institutional arrangements made between different nations. Globalists, however, have different beliefs about the long-term consequences of globalization. Pessimistic (or negative) globalists point to the assertive dominance that countries are imposing around the world and believe that this is damaging the idea of nationhood, while positive globalists see the results of globalization as having provided improvements in
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