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We live in a time of many diverse social movements, political breaks and transitions. The end of the last century has brought on the collapse of the Soviet union and Yugoslavia, which enabled a group of countries to become independent, sovereign units. One of those was also Slovenia. Never before throughout history have we been independent. We have been put on the map in time, when technological revolution of the last couple of decades has brought on revolutionary new methods in dealing with nature and society and when the scientific progress is accelerating at an unbelievable pace. All the world is driven into a constant production of science, education and information, which in the end should enable each and everyone to live a safe, stable life and well-being. All these novelties are producing some sort of world society, global communication and also global markets. We talk of globalization. The term is known for a long time, but only in recent time has it become key element, when describing the trends in world evolution. So in the manner of those trends the world is becoming a global village. The national entities known as countries connect with one another, so that can jointly address the challenges of the era. Slovenia has become a member of one such formation in 2004 –the EU. So only 13 years after becoming independent, we are once more a part of a bigger community.
In my essay I will try to address the positive and negative consequences of globalization, how did they affect our country and what should be the direction, when dealing with globalization in the future.

When speaking of globalization, we must emphasize that this is a very complex and stratified conception. There is no common definition. If we put it into a simple and concrete way, we can say that: “Globalization is a creation and strengthening of social relations, which are of global dimensions and can connect different places, so that local events...