Sharing the downsides? ... that everything is becoming "global" is now a trite cliché, a statement of the obvious - but all the more reason to examine exactly what is involved. We don"t have to accept that globalisation is either inevitable, or a Good Thing. The extract which forms the basis of this page questions globalisation by suggesting that much of the system is "negative" ...The eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman...