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 The rapid development of transportation and information technology during the last three decades has drastically changed our mental map on distance, travel, trade, communication, etc. Unlike before, our life is much more closely connected with the people and places where are physically quite distant from us. As you can see fresh blueberry from Western Canada in the grocery stores in Honolulu, and as you can watch Jake Shimabukuro playing his uke on Japanese TV station, so can you bump into the people and get information from various places around the world right in your hometown.
Even though some might think that this social change challenges anthropological approaches, anthropologists can still contribute their work to solve and avoid the problems that come out from this new social phenomenon.
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We have witnessed how this rapid change of the flow of information and people shifted several regional systems around the world. It has also empowered the people who lived in the peripheral area within regional and national systems to some extent.