Until the early 1900s, countries were separated by prodigious geopolitical barriers, such as mountains, deserts, and oceans. To travel from country to country for trade, or even village to city, meant using ground or water transportation—which could take from a few weeks to a few months to do. However, the invention of the airplane allows people to now take a trip in a few hours which previously would have taken a few weeks. Now, people all around the globe are more interconnected than ever before because of the rise of airlines and the commercialization of airplanes. Airplanes have had an immense impact on the globalization of travel, and the subsequent spread of culture, new markets, disease, and environmental issues.
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It doesn’t make all places the same, but it creates globalized spaces and connecting corridors which ease the flow of capital by matching the time-space compression of connectivity with a degree of cultural ‘compression’” (1999, 9). With the increase of people flying to countries for tourism, Western habits have occasionally been picked up by locales. For instance, in Jamaica, an important aspect of their culture is reggae music; it retained its unique sound until Jamaican artists began trying to break into the American music scene, changing aspects of their cultural music to incorporate R&B, hip hop, and rock in order to appeal more to the Western audiences. Globalization has gotten to the point where the small Kingdom of Bhutan is determined to preserve their way of life and their environment from the effects of foreigners by keeping the effects of tourism low while reaping the benefits; they have tourists pay up to $200 a day and have them accompanied by a tour guide at all moments to prevent wandering foreigners (Magistad 2011). Another interesting aspect of the homogenization of cultures via air travel is how travel for business versus pleasure tend to reflect the …show more content…
Up until 150 years ago, diseases spread easily within a locale because of the close proximity, but diseases spreading globally was rare and took time because travel by land or sea took time. However, with today’s quick air travel time being within a day or so to traverse the globe, diseases have the opportunity to spread much faster. Though sanitation is generally much more important and kept today than it was prior, new diseases can be spread person to person or country to country much more easily. According to a study titled published in 2014, “contribution of travel associated leptospirosis to total caseload is as high as 41.7% in some countries” (Bandera et. al, 2014). As commercial airplanes are built with each person sitting in very close proximity, the opportunity for airborne diseases to spread is great. It is not unrealistic for a scenario to occur in which a flight passenger travelling home has caught an infectious disease and spreads the illness to other passengers and people at home. According to a study conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, 80% of disease transmission occurs through surface contact (Georgia Institute of Technology 2012); with the number of surfaces a passenger comes into contact with that strangers have also touched, it is not unreasonable to be concerned for public health. These airborne infectious diseases are most
Every nation in the …show more content…
It doesn’t make all places the same, but it creates globalized spaces and connecting corridors which ease the flow of capital by matching the time-space compression of connectivity with a degree of cultural ‘compression’” (1999, 9). With the increase of people flying to countries for tourism, Western habits have occasionally been picked up by locales. For instance, in Jamaica, an important aspect of their culture is reggae music; it retained its unique sound until Jamaican artists began trying to break into the American music scene, changing aspects of their cultural music to incorporate R&B, hip hop, and rock in order to appeal more to the Western audiences. Globalization has gotten to the point where the small Kingdom of Bhutan is determined to preserve their way of life and their environment from the effects of foreigners by keeping the effects of tourism low while reaping the benefits; they have tourists pay up to $200 a day and have them accompanied by a tour guide at all moments to prevent wandering foreigners (Magistad 2011). Another interesting aspect of the homogenization of cultures via air travel is how travel for business versus pleasure tend to reflect the …show more content…
Up until 150 years ago, diseases spread easily within a locale because of the close proximity, but diseases spreading globally was rare and took time because travel by land or sea took time. However, with today’s quick air travel time being within a day or so to traverse the globe, diseases have the opportunity to spread much faster. Though sanitation is generally much more important and kept today than it was prior, new diseases can be spread person to person or country to country much more easily. According to a study titled published in 2014, “contribution of travel associated leptospirosis to total caseload is as high as 41.7% in some countries” (Bandera et. al, 2014). As commercial airplanes are built with each person sitting in very close proximity, the opportunity for airborne diseases to spread is great. It is not unrealistic for a scenario to occur in which a flight passenger travelling home has caught an infectious disease and spreads the illness to other passengers and people at home. According to a study conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, 80% of disease transmission occurs through surface contact (Georgia Institute of Technology 2012); with the number of surfaces a passenger comes into contact with that strangers have also touched, it is not unreasonable to be concerned for public health. These airborne infectious diseases are most