We just took an amazing voyage from Vancouver, Canada to Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, Italy, Morocco and then Miami, Florida in 100 days in the fall of 1999. The fun of the voyage came from seeing so many countries one after another for five days each and being able to compare them. Each country has influenced its neighbors through history and the voyage clearly showed these relationships in a way that would be hard to understand without sailing from place to place. The ship was a floating university with about 625 undergraduates, mostly from the United States. Here are letters and photos from the voyage.
Ship arrives in Kobe, Japan, 12 days after leaving Canada
Globalization is so interesting a) in the way, unlike at any other time in history, it connects the world through the Internet in an immediate, qualitatively different way, b) in the way it offers so much of the world access to knowledge, information and advertising, and c) in the way this will change people, cultures and languages. Globalization