Blog entry #1

Primarily Australia was utilized in the early spice trade by the European powers. Later they became a colony of Britian. The authors of THE WORLD IS SPIKY are asserting that the world may not be flat as Friedman claims but people who live their lives in cities have more of an advantage than those who don’t because they are much closer to research, industry, and innovation. At Bondi beach many people were from a younger age group around the 20’s but there certainly was a wide range of age. I found that many people from all over the world came to that beach such as Swedish, Asians, and Africans. It also appears that a few younger Australians are a little more rowdy and don’t exactly follow beach policy (alcohol and smoking). I was not surprised that typical stereotypes are commonly wrong. Australian’s are more like normal Americans and Europeans and not rough cut bush-men. The beaches are a great example of globalization 3.0 because it shows that people from all over the world compete and are able to travel wherever they like. People seemed to come to the beach from all around just to enjoy it. And this was without much compliant; there were many people in the surf and not many were worried about the riptide. I have been to one of the worst riptides in the world (Hawaii) and found the Australian beach to be less perilous. Although, members of our group did save a man’s life which proves that danger in the ocean is always apparent.