Globalization

          Globalization is basically the process of ideas and technologies spreading throughout the world and its cultures. Cultural imperialism related to media globalization is the idea that some cultures have more access to the newer technologies than others, representing an inequality of global power structure. 

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This map illustrates the fact that some countries don't have access to the same things as most of the rest of the world. In the information age, access to knowledge is essentially power, and since they don't have access to it, they are significantly less powerful than those that do.