Globalization An Overview of Globalization and Its Positive and Negative Aspects By Colin Steif If you look at the tag on your shirt, chances are you would see that it was made in a country other than the one in which you sit right now. What's more, before it reached your wardrobe, this shirt could have very well been made with Chinese cotton sewed by Thai hands, shipped across the Pacific on a French freighter crewed by Spaniards to a Los Angeles harbor. This international exchange is just one example of globalization, a process that has everything to do with geography. Globalization and Its Characteristics Globalization is the process of increased interconnectedness among countries most notably in the areas of economics,