Media

Today our world is centred around media. We want to know all the latest news, what's going on in the world, and we can access it very quickly on the internet. However what we see on the news is not always the full story. It may be just one part of it. The information we are fed most probably is biased, either the editors or presenters choose what they want to show us.
The information we receive shapes who we are and what we think. However if we are constantly fed the same biased information and don't have the other side of the story we will not have our own opinion, but someone else's.
Most of the media in the States is owned by businesses in the States, so the bias will be strongly pro-American. For example 9/11 was shown that the Muslim countries were to blame and that they were evil, and this was the part of the story we heard here in North America. However we weren't told that only a few years before Americans had destroyed mosques and other buildings in the Middle East.

Globalization should help spread information that was previously ignored or not available, however not all information id available, for a number of different reasons. Also if there is no access to internet, TV or other sources of international media, then a digital divide happens, and some people recieve all the information, while others are left in the dark.