THE
GLOBAL VILLAGE
In a village everybody knows
everything about their neighbours. If somebody gets a job or if somebody is
ill, the whole village will soon know all about it. News travels fast in a
village. It travels by word of mouth (dari mulut ke mulut). Mrs Hartono meets
Mrs Hadianto and says, “Did you hear about Mrs Rianto’s boy, Fenti ?”. Mrs
Hadianto says, “No. tell me all about him.” This is how news travels in a
village, from person to person, from one street to the next street.
In the global village news travels
by telephone, fax machine, satellite television and the internet. These
electronic media are in every part of the globe. Everybody in the world now
lives in what is called “The global Village”. Indonesia is a part of the global
village. Mrs hartono watches satellite TV and when she meets Mrs Hadianto she
says, “ Did you hear about the earthquake in Peru ? Wasn’t it terrible ? four
the thousands people are dead.” In the global village news travels thousands of
kilometers.
In the global village everybody can
know what is happening everywhere else. For example, if there is a forest fire
in a country, everybody hears about it through satellite TV. Suddenly nobody
wants to visit that country. News travels fast and bad news travels the fastest
in the global village.
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