globalization

i dont understand this unn-ending discussion about the
meaning  of globalization.
it seems almost self-evident that 

the present globalization under disucssion is no more than a euphomism for
Americanization and that otherwise the world had been globalized since
1492 and in Afro-Eurasia for millennia before that
gunder frank


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