I spent most of my school life and child hood and as a child I didn't know or even process how much globalization affected me. Thinking back on it now I see my entire friend group and everyone I knew was from someplace different. Globalization affected my everyday life because every new person I met was from a place out the country or a place Ive never heard of before. I've seen immigrants from D.R., Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Ecuador, Peru, Ghana, and a bunch of other places. Seeing the face that all of my friends are from different places I started to learn about their music, their food, their culture, and even some of their religion. looking back on that I now realize how different each and every one of my friends are and can recognize the way that came to be was because of globalization. When I moved to PA it was a similar situation as what's happening in New York but on a smaller scale.
Moving to PA was a big shift for me and I was just trying to figure things out, but looking back I see that most of my friends were people that came the the New York, and New Jersey area(I also lived in New Jersey for about 2 years). Since I was a part of the population that was coming from New yor and New Jersey, I was basically the "immigrant" coming to a new place. While I was the new kid I was able to form my own group of friends that were also from the New York and New Jersey area.
Overall, I've experienced globalization all throughout my life. I've seen it happen within other people in my communities when I was younger and even "Being a part of globalization" when I moved from New York to PA. I've never thought about my life like this and it was a cool way to bring back some memories of the very diverse place known as Bronx, New York
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