one-sided one. This two-way street impact of communication technologies is creating a global village with homogenized values whose collective nations each attempt to retain their own sense of national identity and culture through a variety of means from laws and trade restrictions to outright censorship and promoting obstacles to access to technology through imposition of high costs in users.
The ôglobal villageö predicted by McLuhan was a valid and prescient prediction. Nevertheless, the homogenization of values and identity in that village does not have to represent a dirty word or the threatening ôOther,ö as the U.S. is often viewed. Instead, nations collectively continue to maintain a sense of national identity and culture but permit, to varying
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