ABSTRACT
In spite of Chalmers’s characteristically profound observation, ‘globalisation’ is becoming something of a cliché. Its decline is aggravated by it being a word which is frequently, and frequently wrongly, used. So globalisation deserves explaining. Rather than meaning an internationalist approach or regionalisation, it refers to those processes which convert the world into one single entity. This in itself may be no bad thing, but when we remember that these processes lead to the removal of national, cultural and linguistic boundaries, globalisation’s potentially dire implications become clear (Bettcher and Lee, 2002).
