THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION Nowadays one of the most commonly used terms
             is globalization. But what does globalization mean? Does it mean dissappearing borders,
             a common trade unit, no tax in trade abroad, political awareness across the world, or, in
             extremes, even interfering with other countries' domestic affairs? In some ways
             globalization may be useful in creating a common sense of "world citizenship", but useful
             to what extent? What are the possibilities, advantages and risks of such "world
             citizenship"? Are the United Nations and the European Union, stepping stones to
             globalization? Disappearing borders, in the economic meaning of the term can most
             clearly be seen today in Europe. The European Union restricts taxes on trade between
             members. Taking a step further the EU have decided on a common currency, the "Euro" ,
             which became available at the beginning of 1999. This currency may economically be
             more functional but what aboutnational pride? All trade units display a country's well
             known heros or great personalities of them that the citizens respect for. How are the
             citizens going to respond to this kind of change time will show but nobody can say
             European countries are not nationalistic. There is a strong evidence on the contrary. One
             example is world war II, which started in the middle of Europe- -considered then the most
             civilized part of the world- because of Germany's belief in its national superiority. This
             unfortunate development took place just half a century ago.These European nation-states
             may seem to be getting along well for the time being because of fairly smilar economic
             levels but what will happen if one country's economic level drops or gets much better
             than the rest? Would the better ones pull up the worst to keep up with them or would
             those countries-having the best economy- want to carry the rest on their shoulders?
             Besides its economic ups and downs globalization ha...