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In the last few decades, globalization has brought an era of immense and unprecedented change that is affecting our lives in every domain and every possible way. The phenomenon of globalization refers to transplanetary processes that involve multi-directional flows of people, objects, places, technologies, and information (Ritzer 2011). Its crucial and profound impact is manifested most strikingly in the fields of economy and information technologies. In other words, more and more regions of the world are dominated by a capitalistic way of life and involved in the neoliberal economic system, while they are intimately connected to each other through instruments of information technologies.
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Zhang, F. (2019). Buddhism and Rhetoric: From an Intercultural Perspective. In: Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in a Zen Buddhist Temple. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8863-7_1
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